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Originally Posted by wufwugy
I want to be super clear: Option 1 is saying other people are better at knowing what you need than you are. Option 2 is saying you are better at knowing what you need than other people are.
But it's not just that, it's that Option 1 is saying other people who will never know anything about you are better at knowing what you need than those who know lots about you and are close to you
When we say the government should be the decider over people, say, smoking pot, we are doing nothing different than if we say the government should be the decider over what time people go to bed. Our relegation of authority is the same in both scenarios. You would not relegate the authority for what kind of music you can have on your playlist to politicians determined by all the UK voters, so why do you think it is better to relegate the authority for handling a neighbor who beats his kid to those same voters? If you heard about a guy in Virginia who beat his kid and his neighbors didn't like it, would you say "all the voters of the US should decide what happens here" or would you say "the family, friends, and/or neighbors should handle it"?
You don't want to say this though. When I hire a contractor to build me a house, I'm saying he knows what I need better than I. He may bring me decisions and ask for my sign off but there are decisions I can not possibly make better than him.
I wish I could find it but there's a scene in House where Dr Foreman basically says to some parents, "It's crazy to think you'll understand what I'm saying and make an informed decision, so here it is: It's dangerous and you should do it."
Also, I remember conservative talk radio and this was a very persuasive point. Yes, gov't sucks a lot but don't lose sight of the fact that it's necessary. It solves a big problem with violence. Gov'ts struggle with violence is still seen today with the Charlie Hebdo nonsense. Some muzzies want to control how other people act and so they use violent force. The whole of France rises up and says, "we prefer our gov't being the violent ones thank you very much!"
And when you've got a gov't taking care of the violence problem, people will start asking it to take care of other problems... like stealing, and building roads, and preventing teen pregnancy because it's well positioned to.
Remember what that one guy said from that one link you once shared: A gov't of the people by the people requires the people to be the boss, and being the boss is a responsibility and people are too lazy for that shit.
And so we get all this shit.
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