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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163651)6/5/2005 1:19:25 AM
From: geode00  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Why do you equate a draft with slavery? Do you also equate requiring children to get an education with slavery?

Do you equate paying income taxes as slavery? Do you equate traffic laws as slavery?

There are some functions of the organization that everyone gets to contribute to whether or not we like it. One of those is the defense of the country. Those who don't believe in that can prove that they have been and still are conscientious objectors.

If you want perfect freedom: GET OFF THE GRID. There are many places in the world that you can probably live as a hunter gatherer doing as you like all day long. As a consequence, though, you don't get the benefits of the organization.

You don't get potable water, sidewalks and roads, bridges and phone service, safe food and 911.

If you're going to be a libertarian then BE ONE FOR REAL. Go to the hinterlands of Afghanistan where it's Darwin at the point of a gun. There are apparently no laws in about 1/3rd of that country so you can do as you like there as well.

What in the world do supply and demand have to do with freedom? If there were a sudden free for all in the world we would quickly dissolve into tyranny. THAT is the reality of the world we live in and of the human species. Once someone with a little more testosterone than his neighbors gets a little power, he gets a little bit more and then more and on it goes... The natural state of human society IS NOT DEMOCRACY.

In order to have individual freedom, we must have laws that prevent you from punching me in the face for no good reason. Does the existence of that law mean that you are enslaved?
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