[quote]thehebrewhero wrote:
wow chill CB theres nothing wrong with juicing 1st off I was pointing out you seemed testy is all… Im down with all personal choices…Do what you dig[/quote]
I don’t need to chill. I’m not upset.
However you were taking a swipe at me, and all it did was further prove my point, which you continue to ignore in that respect.
You need some rules and regulations if your society is going to function and it has more than 14 people in it. Rules and regulations facilitate order, and order is needed to insure liberty.
That is the main issue I have the anarchists. Government is a necessary evil, by which evil men become powerful through the perversion of the need for some government.
ALl that said you are starting to conflate Critical Theory and libertarianism. They are two opposite ends of the spectrum. (However, I suspect you either know this already, or don’t care.)
You are too focused on individual issues.
As for equal rights, we are all born with equal rights. It is and only can be a failing of government to see otherwise. Rights are inalienable. They don’t come and go, they just are, even if they are repressed by the government you still have them, the government just stops you from exercising them.
As for the other things you talk about, one needs to consider the unintended consequences of those choices. Your freedom ends where someone else’s begins. You are free to do as you please as long as you don’t violate the rights of others. Drugs being legal, great. Until it turns out the local bus driver has decided to take up Heroin for fun, and is endangering 100’s of lives every day now…
It just isn’t a simple as saying “poof make everything legal”.
And as an aside, the type of “utopia” you are thinking of, isn’t the type of utopia progressives are looking for.
Because your choices effect the society around you. You have shown over and over again in your posts you actually only give the “equal rights” to people you want to have equal rights. You go out of your way to put down those that think different than you and look to bully them into silence through ridicule.
While this is your choice, and your freedom to do so, if you push it too far, and words become actions, you can’t be free to choose that option.
[quote]Which as I understand it individual liberties/freedom is core belief of libertarians…
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Yes, but it doesn’t mean there isn’t rule of law. It isn’t anarchy.