Sunday, November 25, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
The differences between Liberals, Conservatives, and non-statists.
- Liberals and Conservatives want to make things illegal if they don't like it.
- Liberals and Conservatives want to legalize things they do like.
- non-statists want to decriminalize personal choices.
What is the difference between legalizing and decriminalizing?
If a conservative wants to smoke a cigarette in a bar, it's up to the owner of the establishment whether or not they can smoke. Legalization would mean taxes and government involvement. Taxes for allowing smoking. Perhaps even insurance to provide non-smokers with lawsuits against the establishment if they suffer from cancer 20 years later.
If a liberal wants to smoke weed in their back yard, perhaps a neighborhood kid sees you smoking it. Legalization might bring zone requirements, where and when you can smoke it. A lawsuit may ensue because the parent feels you exposed their child to something undesirable.
Legalization involves the government. They decide what you can and can't do at their discretion. Decriminalization takes the affair away from the government.
The government is the last answer to any situation, and should be only a solution in our physical defense.
- Liberals and Conservatives want to make things illegal if they don't like it.
- Liberals and Conservatives want to legalize things they do like.
- non-statists want to decriminalize personal choices.
What is the difference between legalizing and decriminalizing?
If a conservative wants to smoke a cigarette in a bar, it's up to the owner of the establishment whether or not they can smoke. Legalization would mean taxes and government involvement. Taxes for allowing smoking. Perhaps even insurance to provide non-smokers with lawsuits against the establishment if they suffer from cancer 20 years later.
If a liberal wants to smoke weed in their back yard, perhaps a neighborhood kid sees you smoking it. Legalization might bring zone requirements, where and when you can smoke it. A lawsuit may ensue because the parent feels you exposed their child to something undesirable.
Legalization involves the government. They decide what you can and can't do at their discretion. Decriminalization takes the affair away from the government.
The government is the last answer to any situation, and should be only a solution in our physical defense.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
I always thought people have the ability to work together. I see more and more that people would rather control each other. We fall into a pit of overwhelming cries for statism. Groups of people trying to control other groups of people, and even people like me, who stay out of the group ideology. I am an individualist, and yet, I am subjected to special interests and people who find themselves to be morally and intellectually superior to me. When asked for advise, I give it, but I never forced it on anyone.
Today, I see politicians fighting for votes, never for freedom or what is right and just. They fight for their own selfish ends. I still see people argue over the (R) and (D). Both are parties that enforce statism in any way they can. I could argue from a conservative point of view, or a liberal point of view; but what you forget is that you destroy someone else's freedoms when you argue to force someone of the opposing view to follow your rules. If one is told what they must do in their home, in their yard, or in their own business, we are truly embracing statism.
If I was liberal, I would not like for the government to tell me I cannot have the freedom to smoke marijuana in establishments that allowed it. If I was conservative, the same could be said about cigarettes. Both sides will argue against their dislikes, but not about what is right. Someone might walk home from a bar realizing they drank too much to drive and at the discretion of law enforcement they may be arrested for a bogus infraction. Simply "public intoxication". Speed traps work the same way, show "50" mph then "35" for 200 feet then it's back to "50". A small space to catch you breaking their rules. Where is the right or wrong? It's just a ploy to give you a ticket.
Government has a great way of tricking those they wish. They will always tell you they are fighting for you. Politicians argue against using fossil fuels, yet they are big consumers at tax payer's expense. Politicians become millionaires at our expense. They will tell us what we need to do while they raise taxes and vote themselves raises. How do they make their millions? By swindling us and selling their votes to corporations. I know we all want to attack the corporations who lobby to them, but if we had control of our government in the first place, they couldn't do this to us! We have a centralized bank run by private organizations sanctioned by the government! Why haven't we taken down the Federal Reserve? Government points the finger at their allies because it doesn't matter. and they regulate the hell out of those who don't pay them off.
Do we want Liberty? Do we want Statism? Stop thinking you need to tell others what they need to accept! If we keep trying to stop others from insulting us because of our own views we CANNOT survive! We are a Republic, the idea is to protect the minority, not mob rule. If you like one thing, but someone else doesn't, they can't take it away just because they don't like it.
Today, I see politicians fighting for votes, never for freedom or what is right and just. They fight for their own selfish ends. I still see people argue over the (R) and (D). Both are parties that enforce statism in any way they can. I could argue from a conservative point of view, or a liberal point of view; but what you forget is that you destroy someone else's freedoms when you argue to force someone of the opposing view to follow your rules. If one is told what they must do in their home, in their yard, or in their own business, we are truly embracing statism.
If I was liberal, I would not like for the government to tell me I cannot have the freedom to smoke marijuana in establishments that allowed it. If I was conservative, the same could be said about cigarettes. Both sides will argue against their dislikes, but not about what is right. Someone might walk home from a bar realizing they drank too much to drive and at the discretion of law enforcement they may be arrested for a bogus infraction. Simply "public intoxication". Speed traps work the same way, show "50" mph then "35" for 200 feet then it's back to "50". A small space to catch you breaking their rules. Where is the right or wrong? It's just a ploy to give you a ticket.
Government has a great way of tricking those they wish. They will always tell you they are fighting for you. Politicians argue against using fossil fuels, yet they are big consumers at tax payer's expense. Politicians become millionaires at our expense. They will tell us what we need to do while they raise taxes and vote themselves raises. How do they make their millions? By swindling us and selling their votes to corporations. I know we all want to attack the corporations who lobby to them, but if we had control of our government in the first place, they couldn't do this to us! We have a centralized bank run by private organizations sanctioned by the government! Why haven't we taken down the Federal Reserve? Government points the finger at their allies because it doesn't matter. and they regulate the hell out of those who don't pay them off.
Do we want Liberty? Do we want Statism? Stop thinking you need to tell others what they need to accept! If we keep trying to stop others from insulting us because of our own views we CANNOT survive! We are a Republic, the idea is to protect the minority, not mob rule. If you like one thing, but someone else doesn't, they can't take it away just because they don't like it.
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