Muir, you are imposing your own belief system on others.
No you are
I am giving you a reality check
Not everyone things freedom alone is in their greatest interest. There are other factors like security, sustenance, healthcare, equality etc...
What a naive statement!
Don't you realise they are all bound up together?
Lose your freedom and you'll lose them all
People prove everyday that these things are what they feel they want or need. To them these things are in their best interest. Freedom is not all or nothing, it is a trade for a little of something else.
This is easy for you to say because you haven't yet experienced a world without freedom!
If we give away our freedom we will lose it all because the people trying to take our freedom are not benevolent; they do not care about your security or safety (think of people being herded onto railway carriages and taken off to camps)
The people are not choosing what they trade freedom for it is all being decided for them and i disgaree with the idea that the current 'trade' as you put it is a fair one that reflects what can be achieved with a fair and responsible sharing of resources
Your argument is an argument in defence of tyranny NOT an argument for a better balance in society
As an example: A homeless person will sometimes commit a crime and give up all their freedoms for a day in order to get a night in a warm environment with food.
We as a society allow the government to build and control the roads and our transporation in order for us to prosper as a society.
I'm not talking about a responsible government i'm talking about the one we have in REALITY which is a corporatocracy bent on creating a police state...wake up!
We allow public schools in order to allow equal opportinty where only those with money would have been able to have the knowledge to succeed.
More naive nonsense!
THERE IS NO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY! The game is rigged
It is freedom to be able to choose to give it up and people make that choice all the time in order to survive and feel secure.
Thats how humanity got plugged into the matrix in the matrix films...they gave away all responsibility
These people are control freaks
They're not interested in giving you a cosy little life they see you as an entirely expendable thing that they want to replace with technology; they are eugencists who are bent on culling the population
They want to drastically reduce the population and the survivors are not going to get QUALITY of life they are going to get shit
If you don't realise that your comforts are directly related to your freedoms then you are going to find that as you give away your freedoms so to will your comforts dissapear because you have failed to realise what kind of people you should be protecting yourself from
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