Quote: (06-08-2014 05:32 PM)All or Nothing Wrote:
Quote: (06-08-2014 08:05 AM)Orion Wrote:
Your government doesn't owe shit to you, and hence it won't grant shit to you if it doesn't have to. If rights granted to you by an institution is "freedom" to you, than you are in a sad and pathetic state of mind.
Actually, if I pay taxes and live as a healthy law abiding citizen, the government does owe me basic rights.
Government is a more modern term for "ruling class".
The ruling class is allowed to exist by the good will of the common people.
What happens when the ruling class abuses the common people for too long and their good will ceases to exist completely?
History books will give you the answer. I am not saying that the U.S. is that way currently, but it is certainly following history.
Seeing government as an absolute authority over your life, and that if you pay this authority an annual stipend with the expectation that your way of life will be allowed to continue, then I must disagree with you completely.
Freedom IS philosophical.
You either see truth as your authority,
Or bow to the authority that define your truth.
Having complete freedom over your own life is probably the most responsibility-demanding lifestyle anyone can be born into.
Russians have learned from their mistakes. Soon, Americans will have too as well.
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