|Originally posted by Lira |
God damn hippies and their laws protecting the stupid! If someone's stupid enough to share a road with a drunk driver, it's their fault if they get killed! If someone's stupid enough not to prevent a robbery with intelligence and wit, and have all their valuable goods stolen because they didn't keep everything in a safe-house, so much the worse for them!
Seems like you failed to understand what I'm saying. It's "God damn hippies and their laws protecting the stupid from themselves!". The drunk driver and the robber are two entirely different things.
An example of a typical hippie law is the seatbelt law. People are only putting their own life's at danger. Yet there needs to be a law that forbids this. You are not gives responsibility for your own doings. Yes, I realize this law has saved many people from injury or death, and removing it would have "bad" consequences. Still, in my understanding of the government this should not be. I demand the fucking freedom to risk my life whenever I want. I value that freedom higher than a bunch of people dying because they made a bad decision. Everyone should be allowed to make bad decisions. Yet the god damned hippies make a new law whenever something doesn't fit with their idealistic world view. It's not the government's job to force citizens to make the "right" decisions. It's the government's job to let people make their own decisions.
Now hippie off, Lira. The world will never be the cheerful pink paradise you want it to be, where everyone lives happily together and Para Para is playing all the time. And stop demanding a new law to fix things whenever your illusions collide with the harsh reality.
Edit: Am I being Ayn Rand-ish here? I never read her shit but someone once told me I would find many of my views there.