You say life begins at birth, and then say no culture in recorded history has ever thought otherwise. You obviously need a history lesson, but i just want to clarify your view to make sure i understand. You believe a 7 month old fetus, that has arms, legs, and organs is not a living thing because it hasn't been born yet? YIKES.
There are SO many of your points that i would love to respond to, but it got weird when you started talking about who gets to have a job and who gets to eat cat food, and then you dropped some names like billy bob, joe bob, and chantelle. Like i'm supposed to be convinced that without excess government, people in very rural, or very urban areas are doomed to starve because every job will be farmed out to exploited labor to central america(juan), gupta ( india) and china/korea/malaysia ? ( wang ling). WHAT A KROC !
And then you imply that all our desires for personal liberties and personal responsibility and choice is just a rouse for us because all we really are interseted in is money and that makes us greedy, selfish, capitalists, who don't care about anything or anyone else. Incredibly ridiculous, although the likes of Marx and Jules Nyerere would be proud of you. It just so happens, that money is the way that essential goods and services are paid for, and how one is entitled to earn, and what he can do with his earnings, and what he can keep that he has purchased with his earnings is very essential to being free. If I choose to give to others, i will give to whom i want, how much i want, and why , and i will not do it out of fear of reprisal or force or imprisonment because someone else is granted the authority to tell me what i can do for a living, what i can buy, what i can keep, and who i have to give to.
You asked what kind of world i want to live in?, well lets make a very simplistic example of the difference in our preferred worlds.
I want to dig a 10' x 10' hole in my back yard, and i want it 10 feet deep.
I don't want to dig it myself, because of either time constraints or physical limitations. So i advertise that i need someone to dig my hole, and that i am offering $400 to do it. Someone answers my ad and looks at where i want to dig my whole and agrees to do it for $400 because he thinks thats a fair trade of his labor for the compensation, and he would like to do it. I tell him that he is solely responsible in case he injures himself, and he, being a free thinking adult, agrees to accept any risks involved. He wants to dig for 12 hours as he wants to finish his task quickly, i tell him it doesn't bother me, as i am paying upon completion of the task. Thats called liberty of contract, and was upheld by our supreme court for many years, all the way up until the '30s. That is a simple example of my world...freedom. Now lets try this scenario in your world.
I want to dig a 10' x 10' hole in my back yard, and i want it 10' deep. I don't want to dig it myself, because of time constraints or physical limitations. So i advertise that i need someone to dig my hole, and that i am offering $400 to do it. Someone answers my ad and looks at where i want to dig my whole and agrees to do it. I tell him that he is solely responsible in case he injures himself, and he, being a free thinking adult, agrees to accept any risks involved. As he begins to dig the whole, the local building inspector stops by and informs me that i need a permit to dig a hole in my back yard, so the hole digger must stop digging, as i must go get a hole permit and that costs me $25. So now that i have a permit, the hole digger begins again, but now, i get stopped by the workers compensation board. They say that although he accepts all risks, i still must buy a workers comp policy to protect him if i want to continue. So i go get a workers comp policy for the week at $125. Then i am told, that i am required to get liability insurance, in case anyone who walks through my backyard( even though i have signs and tape up) falls into the hole and hurts himself. so i go buy some liability at $75. Then, a union official stops by, and tells the hole digger that only a union member is allowed to dig holes in this town. So he has to go pay some union dues of $100, to be able to finish his task. So he digs, and he gets halfway done, and is really looking forward to finishing, but the union stewerd stops by again, and tells him that union workers are only allowed to dig for 6 hours a day, so he is required to come back tomorrow to finish ( although he wants to continue). So we wait until tommorow to start digging again. Right before we commence, someone from the Endagered Species Act stops by, and sees that a rare type of beetle has been living where i have dug our hole, and that since my back yard is this beetles natural habitat. I am ordered to stop and i am fined $500 for disrupting it's habitat. I now, cant finish digging, but i want to pay the man who dug half the hole, something for his troubles. So i pay him $300, but as i am doing so, another agent comes by and informs me that i must take $30 out for his retirement, $45 for state taxes, and $75 for federal income tax. Just as i am ready to give up, someone from yet another agency realizes that i have very special soil in my back yard, and that my back yard is needed to grow a special plant needed for the good of the masses to grow mangenized radishes that can be used to fuel environmentally friendly mopeds. So the government forces me out of my home, razes my house, and creates a government owned radish farm. All under the statute of emminent domain.
Thats an example of your world........ tyranny and theft through bureaucratic bullshit.  |