What happens when my “oughts” are different from your “oughts” are different from Jane’s “oughts”.
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We vote. That’s our system of government.
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Our system of government is based upon the minimum neccesary regulations to insure that an individual is able to make thier own decisions and act on thier own accord.
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It is not. You wish it were, but that is not historically the case, currently the case, and not even philosophically the case. The Constitution was adopted because the Articles of Confederation made the governement too weak not because they made the government too strong. Understand that we are in agreement that government should be limited, small compared to the government today, as non-intrusive as possible (here we will probably disagree about the particulars of what is possible, but that is what voting is for).
Regarding the Taliban and Stalin nonsense, I assure you that basing laws on morality is not totalitarian . . . it is inevitable. Your preference for freedom is a moral viewpoint.
Greg,
We are a Constitutional Republic rather then a direct Democracy PRECISELY because the Founders understood that trading one Tyrant for a Thousand was no bargain. They understood well that a majority could be as much a tryanny as a monarch. That’s why we have a Bill of Rights. It’s why the Ammendment process works the way it does. It’s a big part of why our Constitution and our system of government is formulated the way it is. Your trying to pretend it otherwise does not make it so.
America was very much founded on the ideal, that individuals should largely be free to act on thier own accord....as long as those actions did not transgress against anothers rights.
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
I’m sorry I missed the part of that statement that said “Make sure people obey the will of God”.... could you please point it out to me? I do seem to see a little something in there about LIBERTY however.