jessiethe3rd: You wrote, "Glad that someone has the balls to step up."
You can't be serious. You think these political goons have COURAGE? They have a gun, for crying out loud. They can force people to do what they say. You call that courage?
I call it bullying. It's arrogant, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou self-prepossession that presumes I don't have enough wisdom to make my own choices, but they have enough wisdom to make them for me.
Yeah, right...if that's true, then why do they need to back it up with coercion? They're so sure of themselves that they need a gun to force their opinions down my throat. In other words, the real basis of their authority has nothing to do with moral or rational principle. Strip away all the authoritarian pretense and it boils down to "might makes right".
Why on Earth do we need such thugs telling us what to do? If I'm not free to make my own mistakes, then I'm not free at all. These bozos want to protect me from LEARNING. No wonder we're becoming a nation of sheep.
You see, the whole thing is a bust. They know good and well that no one is going to willingly surrender control of his freedom of choice as to what he does with his own life and property, so they threaten you with loss of a greater amount to con you into forking over a lesser amount.
It's a complete fraud. When illegal organized crime does it, it's called racketeering. But when the state legitimizes it by passing arbitrary laws, it's called "government". The only difference is the legality, and the fact that they get what they want through fraud rather than naked force. But it's still organized crime.
And it certainly isn't courage.
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