taxtaxtax wrote:
>>Please note: I did not ask about your personal driving habits; I am talking about freemen in general.
I do not know about Freemen in general.
I thought you were trying to educate the reader about their ideology...
taxtaxtax wrote:
>>>My question was regarding possible prosecution of freemen who do wantonly drink and drive - do you believe they should be prosecuted, yes or no?
NO No loss or harm.
You're absolutely barking!
No sane person (who isn't utterly selfish or sociopathic) will support you.
taxtaxtax wrote:
>>>Are you happy to let people (or even freemen) drive on public roads while blotto, arresting them only when they crash into property/people?
what is done by them is not my concern. As long as the stay away from me.
You obviously don’t get it. As long as such behaviours are allowed they will never be far enough away from you. Most people will abide by unwritten social norms (I have no reason to doubt that you would too), but some will have a field day.
Today there is a small chance of yourself being run over by a drunk driver in your lifetime, although I should point out that such offenders would be those who subscribe to your freeman ideology (otherwise they wouldn’t have done it, obviously).
If instead everyone lived as you advocate (don't bother with licences or formal tuition, drink/drug as much as they like and drive around at 140mph on any road, but be arrested only after they kill) the only people living into the next week will be those in jail.
Do you really want that level of anarchy and risk of consequence to befall you and your family?
The rest of society doesn't; we understand and accept the limitations of some freedoms such that needlessly elevated risk is minimised to us and our loved ones.
Say you and your family happened upon an armed rapist/druggie in the street and he wanted to do terrible things to you. He aims at you and pulls the trigger but luckily the gun jams:
no harm done - right!?!
Would you really shrug it off and say "
It was only attempted murder" because no harm came from it, even though you and the rest of society will live in fear knowing he is free to walk off, keep and fix his gun and try again?
Ordinarily I would have thought that question is a no-brainer, but I find myself wondering how you will respond…
I don't believe this is a case of everyone not comprehending this freemen ideology, rather it is case of you not comprehending what the rest of society already understands. Society wants rules, not because we accept oppression, but because we want protection from those who otherwise wouldn’t feel the need to abide by the unwritten social norms.
As you rightly point out, some will abuse rules and legislation, but the answer to that is to bring such abusers to account (or at least call for their actions to be transparent), not to simply ditch all the rules.
Maybe we could ask the people living on/near the Somali coast if they think it is preferable to live in a lawless society.