If people where more able to control themselves, there would be no need for laws. Because they think before they act. Laws are needed for people who act first and think later. You read like an Ayn Rand follower and those people are to say at least a bit misguided and only believe in utopia.
All people are never going to be able to "control themselves".. think first and act later. But that's okay. 100% of the people in a free society don't have to behave a certain way. Rather than look at the actions of the extreme minority and run to the arms of government for the solution, we should accept the fact that there always was and always will be risks in a free society.. and that life never was and never will be entirely fair. Hysteria about rare events, however horrible those events may be, never leads to good decisions.. by individuals or by government.
Once again proof that you cannot read. Because i clearly stated that the people do the work and the government is a representation of the wishes of the people. The government is only there for the people. To protect the group against the individual.
No, wrong. The government is not there to protect group rights. It is there to protect individual rights. We each, as citizens, have rights. Just because, collectively, we all have the same rights doesn't mean the government is more an advocate of the majority than of the minority or the individual.
You are confusing entirely different matters with each other. You war on drugs is a problem that is comprised of many different sub problems. It is not 1 problem but several problems. But i do worry that you are also a kind of individual who is a proponent of legalizing all forms of drugs...
Yes, I am such a proponent. I don't need a law to tell me many drugs are bad, and neither do the vast majority of people.
Well, are you proud of yourself. That is something we all do as responsible people. But i doubt you are true to your words.
Of course you doubt it... because you're someone on the Internet.
I think you have been hanging to much with the mind controller. You sound like a well trained communist. You exactly produce what you are taught.
Go ahead and talk about yourself, if you must.
That is your point of view on it. In reality again these are all separate problems and cannot be so easily seen as one and the same problem. Again, you think to much black and white. You think you see a similarity (oh noes the government) and as such it is all the same.
Of course they're all separate problems. The difference between you and me, it would seem, is from what point of view we start when approaching problems. You start from the initial belief that laws and government are good, proper, and essential tools to prevent or address problems... only to concede the opposite when substantial evidence is presented.
I, on the other hand, start from the initial belief that laws and government are
not good, proper and, above all, essential tools to prevent or address problems.. only to concede the opposite when substantial evidence is presented.
Go back to your cages then and live in the woods. Because with your logic, nothing would have ever changed for the better in this world.
No. I have as much of a right to be here as you or anyone else.
Well, if you are unable to follow it and do not properly read, i cannot help it.
You can always address a single subject and i can explain it or i cannot explain it.
The end issue remains the same.
I can follow it just fine. You're just far too often hyperbolic and unnecessarily verbose. If it were spoken out loud it would no doubt come across as grandstanding.