RE: Mandatory voting
March 26, 2015 at 7:24 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2015 at 7:25 pm by Dystopia.)
Quote:So you support a society where a fellow citizen or the state can arbitrarily and without reasonable cause or justification deprive you of your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?
- Why are those truths sacred and undeniable? And why are they even truths? Who appointed it?
- No one is created equal - We are all different and with different privileges. It's a terrible myth to say all men are created equal
- Your rights are not inalienable and inherent, that's another myth - Your rights only exist when the state allows you to exercise them, and even if you think that in liberal countries it's not like that there's a handful of States where society might disagree with you
- Life? The US has the death penalty. Tell me about it.
- Liberty? You only have it when it's convenient. Apparently since members are saying voting is so useless you don't have that much liberty
- Pursuit of happiness is a goal and prerogative, but not a right, you don't have a right to be happy and the main reason is that happiness means different things for everyone.
And no, I don't support such society, I'm just saying it's the quote is inaccurate and unrealistic. You may fancy about the classic liberalism principles that all men have liberty and are created equal but in practice it's not how it happens - Not to mention that America has lived according to liberalism it's whole lifespan and has never known another system so it's not reliable to ask America what freedom means
Quote:The system is too large to fight. The system is also too large to maintain itself much longer. It is falling apart at the seams.Then get ready for a new system in the next decades - Something new may be coming up. You never know what's next. Who would have predicted in 1700 that in 50 years something called liberalism would show up?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you