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Originally Posted by nonverba
jes i think that law is good.
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Okay, then my comments still stand.
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You are a grandpa, someone with life experience and wisdom. So you must understand that the lawmakers do not intend to attack your freedom of choice, but to protect the general public. you included. and that goal (general publics healt)"outdoes" your individual choice, as described in the social contract.
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So, as I've said before, we would all be safer if we had little plastic mats in our bathtubs. Should we pass a law that says we have to have those, and send inspectors around to give us tickets if we don't?
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so why do you feel forced?Maybe you are thinking " yeah but first helmets and what else is next!"
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I'm thinking that if you really want us to be safe on the road then we should also make all cars have roll-cages like race cars do, and then five-point racing seat belts, and everyone in every car should also have to wear helmets.
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and you are right , a lawmaking body can abuse his authority. But then the other powers come in play to control that power who abuses his authority. This is the idea behind "the trias politica" or separation of power. For example in the US you have the impeachement procedure.
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True, but mostly we just enforce our will by electing somebody different next time.
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so in the end we do give up a tiny bit of freedom in general, but we get a liveable society in return. That is the idea of the social contract.
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
This is what freedom is about. We make laws to protect ourselves from each other. We do not make laws to protect us from ourselves.
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i must add that my knowledge of common law is more restricted then continental law, but i do know the basics are in every western country the same,common or continental law.
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How individual laws differ is not the problem. The problem is people who think they can make people give up freedom
for their own good. That is where tyrrany starts.
"Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves."
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Religion