(July 11, 2015 at 2:33 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: I would rather allot freedoms to individuals to decide their family life for themselves, rather than give the government the power to maim citizens in the pursuit of the alleged greater good.
Firstly, the government has a regular habit of abusing any power it is granted, and this would be no different. Except -- the power to maim a citizen, the power to determine that citizen's family life, is such an intrusive power that abuses would help to establish tyranny.
The human species is bound for extinction anyway. This is a brute fact. We will die out. All struggling for survival is currently and will be meaningless because while man proposes, nature disposes. Comet, climate change, megavulcanism, microbial plague. Like well over 99.9999% of all species that have ever lived, we too shall die out. That means that draconian steps taken to forestall this inevitable dieoff are not only inhumane, they are still futile.
I would prefer to live in freedom even knowing that that freedom may be our downfall, only because I know that our downfall will happen through one means or another. Better to die free than to die a serf, sterilized by the government, cowed by authority, beaten into conformity by the fear of death.
This^
The bolded pretty much sums it up. Thanks PT!
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
