...other than, say, if a government wanted the ability to further control people.
Bingo!!!!
They already got their guns, now they can take everything else.
I jokingly cried out 'Communists!'
I could just as easily have cried out 'Capitalists!'
And so I am reminded of G. K. Chesterton's comment that communism and capitalism are just two sides to the same materialist coin.
We are humans and we should be governed by human laws and not antiseptic ideologies that goad us into being more efficient or more healthy or more {insert goody-two-shoes nostrum here}.
With the name of Seaplaner, you may like...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3654596/posts
I could not stop reading.
A great read and I do not recall ever being in a seaplane.