People have to be liable when they injure others...
That's correct - people should be held accountable when they injure others. I'm not advocating that people who are in accidents because of recklessness be excused.
...and we do live in an intricate society where we all can have an impact on others.
Certainly we can; we always, in any and every conceivable basis can and could. A more pertinent question where freedom and responsibility - and, to be sure, curtailing the creeping government is: have we yet hurt someone when the state comes down on us, and upon what theory(s) are those particular laws predicated?
Drunk drivers are a menace...
As are people who, stone cold sober, can't drive. There are people who can drink all night and drive home perfectly fine, and there are people who, wide awake, have accident after accident after accident, personifying the term "menace."
...and prevention is the best cure there, put them in jail before they kill someone.
You are endorsing nothing less than a tool of tyranny: preemptive laws. You who speak so much about the Patriot Act might do well to consider the concept of gradualism and what got us where we are.
Insider traders steal from the common man.
Information socialism: you're saying that information must belong to everyone, or to no one. How is "the common man" hurt by a trade being placed with only limited distribution of the information?
Voluntary euthanasia would eventually be pushed on certain sick people by the influences of insurance companies if it were legal (to cut costs).
That's pure speculation; I don't think many families would allow that to happen, nor would it be voluntary (which is to say, legal) if the person or their guardians didn't agree to it. More likely, insurance companies would compete more carefully for who they offer policies to, and perhaps entrepreneurial forces will rise leading to greater specialization among such firms.
The common man today needs laws to protect him from huge, powerful corporations.
Sometimes. I also believe, simultaneously and in this day and age, that huge corporations need to be protected from responsibility shirking, property right-trampling mobs of common men.
And spam is a fact of life. In order to be free we sometimes have to hear things we don't like or agree with. And receiving junk mail in the mailbox in front of your house is the same as e-mail spam. Just fight it technologically imo.
I think that plans to make spam illegal - let alone a felony - is indicative of the tragic trend in this country.
The nanny state is afoot, feeding those who would be farmed like worms; free markets and the pioneer ingenuity that built this country be damned.
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