Originally posted by RogueLeader
Freedom and protection are one and the same. You can't give up freedom and be protected. Governments over the last 100 years killed 170 million innocent people in democides and genocides according to the University of Hawaii; I don't trust things that commit a Halocaust every decade to protect me.
bahhh... your throwing around your RL rhetoric.
Freedom and Protection ARE NOT the same.
example if I put a fish in a bowl its save and can be easily cared for. but the fish has only about a few inches of swimming space. Now if I take that same fish and introduce it to a pond, it has tremendous freedoms but its fellow fish also have the same freedom to eat him
Which is my biggest problem with Anarchy. I like the idea of no GOV. Total freedom. wooo... happy days, cartwheels and such.
HOWEVER
who is going to protect me?
no one. Its up to me.
and what if people start banning together? start little gangs of bandits, or for groups of protection? DOH'
we got GOV again
so IMO Freedom and Protection are on the slide bar of life. you get one or the other. sacrificing Freedom for Protection.
As for Goat fu*ker
I'm going to tell you that the GOV
can give protection. but they don't have to. and if they don't. well they won't put up with it. whats the point of GOV if they are not going to protect you from others and yourslef?
the enemy is not always that other GOV, sometimes its the people next door who are just insane
hrmm.. as for this comment
just give me my freedom, and i'll keep myself safe, its better than beeing a slave and still not being safe.
I think the bonus putting your protection in another persons hands is just that. its out of your hands. Gives you more time for other things, arts, science, ect. Do you really think we could get to where we are today if the protection was left up to indviduals?
Now I do like limited Protection by the GOV. boarder security here, a cop or two yeah. Gives me time to play some games and goto college without the worry about getting my brains blown out. when the GOV starts to cramp my style and takes away my time for personal advancement (recreation,arts, science) that I have a problem with.
I can stand metal detecter here, and a X-ray there. but when we start getting into cammeras @ home, more police carry'n large gunz, and my ablity to speak my mind. I have a problem.