| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (commonsense,)
Well, james, If you're a Libertarian... you're neither. You just want to be left alone, leave everybody else alone, don't want to be bullshitted and certainly don't want to pay (taxes) for the privelege!
You think the U.S. Constitution is a miracle philosophy that concedes only the least bit of power and money to those you elect to do the minimum intrusion of freedom to accomplish things you can't do foryourself like strictly circumscribed national defense (not imperialism or the "neo-con" military protection of economic concerns) , maybe regulating where dams can be built, possibly emergency epidemiological dept, minting coins and keeping the currency reliable from counterfeit, and providing an incorruptible judiciary to settle contract disputes between free equal men.
You believe that in a society unfettered as socially possible by even the least bit of goverment interference, that a miracle of human spirit results that make people be as ingenious as they can, instead of running around trying to fit the rules imposed on them, and that when they are free to choose whether to be armed without striction, society naturally evolves more civily, and there is less crime and corruption.
You are more honest because there are no "social" rules except those that are natural. You grow and smoke what you want, nobody with a badge sticks a gun in your face and empties your pockets or kicks down your door.
It is spiritual to mind one's own business and agree that everyone else will, too.
It's not an impossible dream.
Don't overindulge in drugs too often, the world needs you.
Read Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" the pages on governments, at least, understand how all of prior history man has been under someone's thumb to varying degree, and no sweet-sounding slogan is good enough to submit to that, because you don't need a bloated bureaucrat's armed official hoodlum to force you to be humanitarian, or green, or liberal, or progressive... while he picks your pocket and your paycheck and your soul to pretend to save humanity. Humanity loves itself when the power is equal and you're free to achieve honestly. Tell your friends.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
EXCELLENT post... |