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That's one way of framing it. The other way of framing it is that individual liberties are more valued than group securities in America. For example the individ

by umvi 6y ago

That's one way of framing it. The other way of framing it is that individual liberties are more valued than group securities in America. For example the individual liberty to own a firearm is (currently) more valued than the group security of not having firearm related deaths. Group securities require giving up individual liberties. Hard to say which way is "better" or "winning". America is divided on which way to move. One side optimizes for life over liberty, the other side optimizes for liberty over life. You can see it happening right now with covid. One side cares more about preserving lives, the other side cares more about preserving liberties.

xiphias2 6y ago
Right to bear arms was about not allowing (British) government suppression, which was seen as a group security actually.
grecy 6y ago
For sure, I didn't say it was "bad", I just said it's not "strange" that cooperating has disappeared. The system is designed in a way that discourages it.
3np 6y ago
And yet, the same country that normalized globally that it should be a jailable offense to grow the wrong plant, or reshare information attached with a license. "Liberty for me but not for you", I think.
xyzzyz 6y ago
For example the individual liberty to own a firearm is (currently) more valued than the group security of not having firearm related deaths. It has been long argued over whether 2nd Amendment rights are individual or collective. In fact, proponents of gun control typically argue that 2A “right to bear arms” is in fact collective, and not individual, in order to justify gun control efforts. It was only in 2008 Heller decision that it was ultimately affirmed as individual right.
damnencryption 6y ago
How many people die from guns excluding accidents, law enforcement, suicides, etc in US? How many of them illegally owned guns or had committed a crime with them? How poor the area was? What is the impact of media on encouraging mass gun shootings? It's established that publishing news of suicide encourages more copy cats and the participants are co-related in some way. News of young people committing suicide encourages other young people and so on. I support improved gun control laws but how much of it will be solved by it at the cost of freedom?

by umvi 6y ago

xiphias2 6y ago

Right to bear arms was about not allowing (British) government suppression, which was seen as a group security actually.

grecy 6y ago

For sure, I didn't say it was "bad", I just said it's not "strange" that cooperating has disappeared. The system is designed in a way that discourages it.

3np 6y ago

And yet, the same country that normalized globally that it should be a jailable offense to grow the wrong plant, or reshare information attached with a license. "Liberty for me but not for you", I think.

xyzzyz 6y ago

For example the individual liberty to own a firearm is (currently) more valued than the group security of not having firearm related deaths. It has been long argued over whether 2nd Amendment rights are individual or collective. In fact, proponents of gun control typically argue that 2A “right to bear arms” is in fact collective, and not individual, in order to justify gun control efforts. It was only in 2008 Heller decision that it was ultimately affirmed as individual right.

damnencryption 6y ago

How many people die from guns excluding accidents, law enforcement, suicides, etc in US? How many of them illegally owned guns or had committed a crime with them? How poor the area was? What is the impact of media on encouraging mass gun shootings? It's established that publishing news of suicide encourages more copy cats and the participants are co-related in some way. News of young people committing suicide encourages other young people and so on. I support improved gun control laws but how much of it will be solved by it at the cost of freedom?