When people advocate that government must perform a function, they only think that government will be competent, rational, thoughtful, careful and not abuse any citizen. But the truth must always be hammered: that government is only power, and in the end it can only threaten to use force up to and including force that leads to death of the citizen.
When you ask a person who advocates that government must enforce such and such a law, if it is so important that they would shoot their own grandmother in the head if she politely declined to obey the law, such people recoil in horror that anyone would ask such an outrageous question. Yet that is exactly what can happen. This poor woman could have been tazered or shot had she gotten too uppity with the officers and it would have been dismissed because the officer was merely following department policy.
Well the policy of my department is to respect the liberty of others and to only involve government when there are no other means left to have an peaceful society.
POST OF THE DAY!!!!
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You get it. You are one of the very few on Free Republic who do when it comes to government schooling.