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Saving lives cannot be the only consideration. There has to be limits on the power of the state to restrict and compel human behavior. We shouldn't live under m

Saving lives cannot be the only consideration. There has to be limits on the power of the state to restrict and compel human behavior. We shouldn't live under medical tyranny.

aaron-santos 5y ago
What about economic tyranny? Shouldn't we be fixing that first?
- CryptoPunk 5y ago
  What economic tyranny are you referring to?
  - quantumBerry 5y ago
    How about the tyranny of being forced to pay taxes to blow up little kids in Afghanistan at $40k+ a bomb, or the tyranny of being forced under penalty of prison to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons for the Taliban? You don't think it's a little tyrannical that the tax man can say give us the money to blow up innocent little kids or I'm going to put you in a cage and take your own kids?
  - aaron-santos 5y ago
    The market. I want to be free from it a la Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal[1]. As much as small government-types don't want to experience government in their everyday lives, I wish not not experience the market and its influence in my everyday life. As much as small government-types feel like they cannot escape government control, I feel like I cannot escape from market control. [1] https://thenewpress.com/books/freedom-from-market https://thenewpress.com/books/freedom-from-market
    - CryptoPunk 5y ago
      >>The market. I want to be free from it a la Freedom from the Market: So you want to be free from the state of others having the right to engage in mutually voluntary economic interactions? Their right to free assocation, is a tyrannical infringement of your right to dictate how they live? You can't just leave other people and form your own socialist commune somewhere?
      - aaron-santos 5y ago
        When they determine the choices I have to live my life. Yes. That is the definition of freedom.

Saving lives cannot be the only consideration. There has to be limits on the power of the state to restrict and compel human behavior. We shouldn't live under medical tyranny.

aaron-santos 5y ago

What about economic tyranny? Shouldn't we be fixing that first?

CryptoPunk 5y ago
What economic tyranny are you referring to?
- quantumBerry 5y ago
  How about the tyranny of being forced to pay taxes to blow up little kids in Afghanistan at $40k+ a bomb, or the tyranny of being forced under penalty of prison to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons for the Taliban? You don't think it's a little tyrannical that the tax man can say give us the money to blow up innocent little kids or I'm going to put you in a cage and take your own kids?
- aaron-santos 5y ago
  The market. I want to be free from it a la Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal[1]. As much as small government-types don't want to experience government in their everyday lives, I wish not not experience the market and its influence in my everyday life. As much as small government-types feel like they cannot escape government control, I feel like I cannot escape from market control. [1] https://thenewpress.com/books/freedom-from-market https://thenewpress.com/books/freedom-from-market
  - CryptoPunk 5y ago
    >>The market. I want to be free from it a la Freedom from the Market: So you want to be free from the state of others having the right to engage in mutually voluntary economic interactions? Their right to free assocation, is a tyrannical infringement of your right to dictate how they live? You can't just leave other people and form your own socialist commune somewhere?
    - aaron-santos 5y ago
      When they determine the choices I have to live my life. Yes. That is the definition of freedom.