sneakypenguin said:
Gun control would be unjust, my having a gun in no way effects you, to take away the right to a firearm would be to arbitrarily remove a freedom based solely on a projected fear. Granted my right to that firearm ends when I threaten another individual with it(without need)
However, who decided in the first place that you have the right to the firearm? Who set the default position to 'owning a firearm' instead of 'not owning a firearm'? In addition, if no control system is in place, what guarantee do I have that you can use the gun you own safely, you store it properly (so that the kids from next door can't get to it and shoot my windows off) and that you are not a certified maniac just released from prison? The gun control laws 'at my country anyways' make sure that in most likelyhood, if you own a gun you know how to use it properly, the police have checked out your background and you are aware of proper safety instruction and proper use of the firearm. I.e. I don't have to worry about some nutjob on the street pulling out a gun on me if he doesn't like the way I glanced at him.
Not having gun control laws would be a safety issue.
Job security laws(i take it that you mean workplace safety laws) can be an affront to individual freedom, you can look at many many stupid OSHA rules to see that. But a law that protects an individuals right to life and wellbeing could be seen as justified in that they protect the individual.
So you can accept laws that increase safety at the cost of individual freedom. Since individual freedom isn't you #1 qualifier for acceptable laws, I wonder why you are so much against national service?
Besides, individual freedom isn't always a good thing. Why? Because people are stupid and ignorant. Maximizing an individuals freedom would mean anarchy and chaos, because there would not be any laws. Without law there is no order. All laws set limits to freedoms and humanity needs to be governed. Whenever there is anarchy, humans establish some kind of ordered system of ruling in short order.
A successful government simply walks a tight rope between people's freedoms and laws to create order.
The traffic laws do not infringe on the rights of the individual because my right to drive like I want ends when that poses a threat to your right to live/safety
But they do infringe on your rights to drive backwards and steering with your toes. But that is the point. The laws themselves deside what freedoms are given to you, there is no universal quantifier of 'absolute freedom', unless it means anarchy. Your right to drive however you want ends when the safety for others drops, precisely because the traffic laws state so. The existing laws are infringing on your freedoms, but you simply accept these laws as reasonable and therefore don't think of it as a loss for yourself.
As far as taxation goes it is if you think about it nothing more than theft.
Wrong, at least in my country. I get a lot, A LOT, from my government back.
I'm forced to pay (under penalty of jail/loss of property) for things I do not and will not use.
Sad, but unavoidable. These things are usually decided with the majority in mind. Just because you happen be one of these people who get almost nothing, doesn't mean it's theft.
Why is it required that I pay for a bailout of a company that made stupid choices? Why do I have to pay for some dumb sluts housing? Now I realize this is idealist thinking but a usage tax IMO is the only truly justified tax.
Riight... You do realize that things have a cost outside of using them? And how would you even define the costs truly accrued by you for upkeeping the legal system, if you don't use a court or after needing a judge for a few hours? Some systems and institutions need to exist even if you don't use them. Because if you need them, it's too late to begin building them up. Police is another such institution. It is impossible to calculate accurately how much less crime has affected you simply because the police systems exists.
Even in principle the idea is, quite frankly, ludicrous. Because the only alternative would be to not have any kind of government and everything would be private sector stuff. But there would not be governmental control, because on any level that would require some manhours of work, paid by someone. The companies wouldn't do it, you wouldn't trust them to do it and your proposed tax system would be unable to place the costs to proper individual. This would immediately result in some kind of community or income tax in function if not in name. And that would be the precursor of the current system.
Besides, as you admit, some things need to be maintained. And can you claim even a hint of the understanding required to comprehend and valuate which things should be maintained? Do you think your current tax levels are unfair? Then though luck. Move elsewhere. Or just do what hundrests of other sheep do: complain to your representative. Listen to worthless promises a while. And when you want to learn the reality on the matter, go visit the nearest university and ask around for a few professors in micro- and macroeconomics, political history and other experts. Because they can tell you precisely how and why your money is spent and why the decisions made in the budget meetings at you congress/whatever are what they are.
Because let's accept it, laymen don't understand the issues or their interrelated complexities. They just see the bottom line. And it can't please everyone.
And about national service being nothing but slavery? Not quite. You get money for it, you get the clothing, you get the food and you get a roof on top of your head. Quite a lot better than 90% of jobs out there. Sure, the pay isn't that good and you do have some rules regarding general conduct and leaves and such. But again, nothing too dissimiliar from ordinary jobs; At what job can you just walk out of the gate for a few days, without approval from your supervisor, and expect to come back without any kind of punishment? national service tends to just increase the level of control slightly, after all, it's about training for war you know. And with proper supervising and training the level of accidents during service is kept below numbers generated by the general public. I myself have extremely positive experiences from national service.
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