Drunkie,
Not sure where to even start. So you advocate regulating society as well as regulating what they trade? Yes lets let a small group of men decide whats best for us. I think your advocating…actually not sure what your saying.
What you guys are missing is that every time the gov’t does something FOR someone, it does something TO someone else. I’m guessing you will argue this too.
No where did I say no regulations. I’m just in favor of say what our founding fathers envisioned. A VERY limited role of government and increased power at the lower levels, ie states, counties, etc but still limited. They understood the ramifications of big gov’t. I believe law is critical to freedom especially as it pertains to limitations of the gov’t to interfere with it.
4runner, to answer your question about free societies I’ll refer to Ludwig Von Mises…
Since time immemorial in the realm of Western civilization, liberty has been considered as the most precious good. What gave to the West its eminence was precisely its concern about liberty, a social ideal foreign to the oriental peoples. The social philosophy of the Occident is essentially a philosophy of freedom. The main content of the history of Europe and the communities founded by European emigrants and their descendants in other parts of the world was the struggle for liberty. “Rugged” individualism is the signature of our civilization. No open attack upon the freedom of the individual had any prospect of success.
We lock up citizens at rates as high as eight times the rest of the industrialized world. Is it because we have more crime? No. What do you get for all this increased spending on enforcing the increased regulations? More tyranny voted upon yourselves.
Ask yourself where your belief system comes from? It’s not from our founding fathers I assure you.
