Why should the government be able to tell us to do/not to do things when we don't agree?
This seriously has perplexed me for years. Even as a child I never understood.
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Because the government is meant to represent a parent figure that holds the collective position on what is right or wrong. A government will enforce and uphold the values, morals, beliefs etc of the majority of its population (in a democracy) and it can dictate things you cannot do because those are things that go against the society you belong to. Say for example killing people because of sexual orientation, now the government has rules in place to prevent that because most people see it as wrong, the government represents the people. However you could still kill someone because they are gay, but you would be going against your government and by proxy your society, by going against your society you alienate and exclude yourself so there are rules enacted to keep you in place within society because that society is necessary for your survival and you contribute to the societies survival. However there are times (Hitler's rule for example) when it was okay to kill gays so the government would not prevent that. The main thing is that rules are in place to hold a society together, and the rules are representative of the majority and humans being gregarious creatures need the group to survive. Rules are meant to preserve the group and to ensure its continuance, that is why it regulates is members based on majority beliefs. But there are clearly things that society, as a whole, can NOT agree on. Abortion, for example, is so closely split, but I don't get the point because they're not the ones going through it, and the people against it clearly aren't going to get one, who are they to say we, the people for it can't get one. If they want to go through it, that's their problem, but I don't think it's fair that I could possibly have to go through something I don't want to because someone else makes me. That HURTS society and that's what they say they're trying to prevent. Obviously its not right that you should have to succumb to the will of others and do things that are caused by their beliefs, but a democracy isn't fair. No society agrees entirely on any point but the minority does not regulate the majority. In a democracy, even the slightest majority gets to force their way of life on the rest of the group because there are more of those who want it than those who don't there will be greater cohesion and unity amongst the group and thus a greater chance of success. For example the abortion issue you brought up, there are more people in society who are pro choice than pro life so the pro choicers get to regulate it. the main thing is that democracy isn't fair, inherently by its very definition it will not be fair to the minority. The majority gets to have its way to ensure the greatest chance of success amongst a society. The will of the majority will hurt the minority when there is disagreement but that is democracy and it is the best model I know that ensures the stability and survival of a society. 1
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a less lengthy and simple answer would be, Society is made up of your peers and those peers are the one who elect the government whom choose your laws and rules and by that logic those government people are the very same as your peers and return the same as you, of course if you vote against them well hey thats a bitch but thats how society works. |
