Comment Re:You don't say... (Score 1) 355
Sometimes, the law is does not fit the situation. For example, you could prevent people from shooting eachother by making guns illegal in the US (as if that would ever happen). The result, however, would be that only the criminals would have guns.
You could prevent people from speeding, by inserting electronics in their cars that would sense the speed limit. But this could be disasterous in an emergency situation.
According to Georgia Law, the missionary position is the only allowed sexual position. In order to prevent people from doing it doggie style, they would need to put cameras everywhere. The world's largest porn collection would be in the hands of your government. Even if you followed the law, they would have your entire sexual history. Just how confortable are you with that thought?
In order to prevent you from pumping your veins with something nasty, there will be a camera in your shower. The government will keep all your activities in the shower in their archives for at least seven years. Do you trust them with those video tapes?
Then some day, your wife dies on the way to the hospital, because your car couldn't go above speed limit. If you were able to break the law by speeding, she would have gotten there in time, she would have been saved. And you want to speak up about this problem, blame the government. Do you still trust the government at that time?
While your suit against the government goes on, some journalist manages to get hold a video tape from the government archive, with your wife sucking you. This is evidence that you broke the law, and the government will claim that you actually killed her to get rid of evidence. You get the chair.
The conclusion: The more freedom you give up, the more privacy you give up, the more power you give the government, the more they will screw you over. And they will use that power to do more of the things overseas that generate terrorist attacks, because YOU won't be able to tell them that they can't.
The government's job is not to protect the people, but to find out what people want and then enforce that. The people is the authority that decides over the government, and the government then enforces that will and administers the collective finances.
You could prevent people from speeding, by inserting electronics in their cars that would sense the speed limit. But this could be disasterous in an emergency situation.
According to Georgia Law, the missionary position is the only allowed sexual position. In order to prevent people from doing it doggie style, they would need to put cameras everywhere. The world's largest porn collection would be in the hands of your government. Even if you followed the law, they would have your entire sexual history. Just how confortable are you with that thought?
In order to prevent you from pumping your veins with something nasty, there will be a camera in your shower. The government will keep all your activities in the shower in their archives for at least seven years. Do you trust them with those video tapes?
Then some day, your wife dies on the way to the hospital, because your car couldn't go above speed limit. If you were able to break the law by speeding, she would have gotten there in time, she would have been saved. And you want to speak up about this problem, blame the government. Do you still trust the government at that time?
While your suit against the government goes on, some journalist manages to get hold a video tape from the government archive, with your wife sucking you. This is evidence that you broke the law, and the government will claim that you actually killed her to get rid of evidence. You get the chair.
The conclusion: The more freedom you give up, the more privacy you give up, the more power you give the government, the more they will screw you over. And they will use that power to do more of the things overseas that generate terrorist attacks, because YOU won't be able to tell them that they can't.
The government's job is not to protect the people, but to find out what people want and then enforce that. The people is the authority that decides over the government, and the government then enforces that will and administers the collective finances.
