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Wayne Doubletree Resident (138.26.199.131) on 12/16/2016 - 1:30 p.m. says: ( 388 views , 8 likes )

"No. No. No. NO!"

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This isn't an answer to your ?, but I always wonder why this is a political thing.

If there is one thing we should all be on the same side about, it's protecting the future of this planet.

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You cannot simply claim "public good" . . . or in this case "global good" and expect us to roll over and accept government imposition. Dangerous!

First, there are a number of problems:

1. The claim that the "science is settled". Science doesn't work like that. There is a big complex planet and a big complex set of issue to the "science". When people say it is settled . . . what they mean is bend over and accept whatever the government says needs to be done . . . it ain't "settled" in that way.

2. Is anything we might unilaterally do going to work? Why is the only solution to put a gun in our face? Perhaps there are other ways.

3. There is an inherent danger to your supposition of "public good". The price of such things are borne in small increments to the liberty of the individual while the perceived benefits are borne by the great body. One is easy to see and measure, the other is not. There is a danger being sucked down this hole.

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"The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well — is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."

No. No. No. NO! Wayne 12/16/2016 - 1:30 p.m.


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