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To: OIFVeteran

The government already regulates all our interactions...regardless of the scale. They determine the food and medicine and clothing and water. They decide who your neighbors will be and the gender of your coworkers and whether your free not to associate. They decide how you raise your kids and what you watch on tv. They’ve even removed marriage from its biological and religious function. You’re put off by them being in the bedroom? The house is burning all around you.


67 posted on 03/18/2019 5:22:36 PM PDT by ARW
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To: ARW

I’m sorry but thats a gross exaggeration. Yes the government sets up regulations so that we have clean food and water. Why? Because greedy business owners didn’t care if they poisoned their customers in the early 1900s. Look at products from China and other countries that don’t have our standards.

Governments always set up rules and regulations. We’ve had them since the founding. Hell, look at my previous post on Lincoln’s father and how back then your property “tax” consisted of you working on your road did two weeks and if you didn’t do it they’d throw you in jail and fine you.

They certainly don’t pick who I’m going to live by. Or who my coworkers are. That’s delusional.

I agree that the Supreme Court decision has legalized same sex marriage was ridiculous. The correct decision in my opinion is that such a change is in the purview of the state. So those states that had passed same sex marriage laws (I believe their were five at the time) same sex couple could get married in. And then under the full faith and credit clause of the constitution other states would have to recognize those marriages. Which would have been crappy to but stated are allowed to do stuff like that.

I don’t know what libertarian fantasy world you think we could have without any government but your wrong. Life would be much worse than it is now. All societies balance the rights of the individual with the needs of society. There has never been or is now a society that allowed the individual to have total freedom, even America.


69 posted on 03/18/2019 5:56:16 PM PDT by OIFVeteran
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