I ,of course, believe that true freedom as i have defined it is possible. Is it probable? no, given what i know about the way human hierarchy works.
Of course when one lives in a society there are lines that should not be crossed. and i gave those lines. life, limb and property are straight forward, cover murder, violence, theft, and vandalism. the selfsame right covers slavery or coercion of any any kind. The voluntary contract exception covers everything else.
For example if I choose to get a drivers license i am entering into a voluntary contract with the government agreeing to abide by the rules of the road and pay any associated fees. If I drive my car on my own property i do not need to get a license for myself or the car and if i can convince my neighbors to allow me to drive on their property i can travel places.
if i choose to contractually bind myself financially to another woman or man that is my business, and if i violate i stand to be punished. Civilly in this case or Criminally in the previous case. I do believe in the importance of contract law.
Sorry i did not know that a reply to your comment would add another vote in favor. the admins should fix that. so -1 from the Yes.
Smarter is a relative term. As already said the IQ is flawed. They used to claim men were better at visual spatial relationship. It turns out that men are better at remembering objects relative to one another in distance and direction, and women are better at remembering small clusters of objects related to one another. The study if i remember correctly did the testing first by not telling subjects they were going to be tested. when they did tell them exactly what they were to be tested on there were no significant difference between men and women.
Income (wage) tax is slavery. my labor is mine, and taxing it is saying you own my labor. we had no income tax until the 1920's. when the amendment was passed income meant corporate profit. the feds decided to change the meaning of income to mean wage. The supreme court ruled twice that they could not tax wages under the amendment. They were ignored and the government has uses threat of force and jail to steal our wages ever since.
I choose liberals but only because there are few real conservatives when it comes to the governments involvement in business and the economy. Democrats, Republicans, Liberal, Conservative (really Neo-Cons) they are all to fault. they all want to take our money and use if for their own profit, whether directly by bailing out private enterprise or to fund bloated, bureaucratic,and ineffective social programs that they can point to when election time come.
Why do so few believe in freedom? It is the business owners right to decide to whom his business caters to. If you don't like it go to another establishment. If the owner has chosen correctly his business will flourish if not it will fail or he will change his policy. Sure mandate that a sticker be put on the door stating if it's smoking or not. Law should be used to protect rights, not to structure the world so that you never have to be exposed to the things you don't like.
It's amazing how people who can otherwise believe that they should be able to choose:
alcohol
weed
abortion
euthanasia
Can with a strait face, sit there and say cigarettes should be illegal, just because it offends their PC sensibilities. Smoking should remain legal.
1. there is no reasonable proof cigarettes cause cancer
2. there is no reasonable proof second hand smoke cause any health issues
3. and most importantly it's about freedom.
and I'll tell you something else, legal or not, if this push to add more and more taxes on tobacco continue we are going to see it become a black market . Then you're going to see kids killing each other and the Mexican government in war with those Evil Tobacco Cartels.
