Let’s take a look at two opposing views that neatly sum up the arguments for each side:
Jonty30 said:
“Everyone should agree that the Government has the right and responsibility to “interfere” with the rights of individuals for the common good at a certain point.”
Maine Yankee said:
My liberty extends to the end of my driveway.
Which is where you authority stops.”
Jonty30, that is the same argument that progressives have been making for over 100 years in everything they do to expand government and interfere with individual freedoms.
Maine Yankee, congratulations. You have shown yourself to be a true conservative and champion of individual rights and individual responsibility. Carry on.
If you want to live in a country without a functioning government, move to Mexico. You might like it. However, as long as you live in America, you are undercutting your own arguement about the necessity of eliminating government.
Informing people and letting them live their lives is not the same as being in a dictatorship or undercommunism. I`m a big believer in allowing people to live the lives they want, but I`m not a big believer in letting them die in ditches, because they honestly cannot take care of themselves as, supposedly anyway, a Ron Paul believer would.