Sacrifice the Person !!!!

Interesting way of looking at things. I especially likes the video example of the police having to back down! I think he’s right when he says that you have to go and find out and confirm this info yourself. 

I didn’t quite understand what his problem was with the system. I’m not suggesting that there aren’t necessarily any problems with the current western “modern” society, but he didn’t articulate a clear proposition. I heard a few interesting facts about the difference between a natural human and a legal person, but the correlation between the two and the need for each, I thought, was clearly understood by the average member of society.

Take his car ownership argument for example, is it really unjust of society to demand that public roads are used responsibly and that each member who decides to use said roads are subject to certain regulations and taxation in order for the roads to function properly? We need money to build and maintain public roads, ergo taxation on car owners (who, by using the roads, share a common responsibility by force of sheer necessity to keep them in functioning order). We need clear rules of conduct in order to ensure that the roads are as safe and ordered as possible, ergo society should have the power to strip car ownership of any member who breaks these rules and thereby unjustly putting other members’ health at risk. So no, in a strict absolutist sense, you do not truly own your person or, as it were, your car because we ALL have duties and responsibilities towards each other. We respect and CONFORM to certain modes of conduct simply because we believe that being a member of this grand enterprise (i.e society) is the best way to ensure that order and peace rules. Now there are many ways of reaching the “perfect city” – many conflicting ideas – hence we have politics (the free exchange of ideas) where we try to discuss how to best solve the issue of creating the best and most prosperous enterprise possible. Democracy might not be the ultimate answer, but it is, as Churchill once said, still our best one.

Harris also made a point where he complained about society not giving the human a choice as to whether he or she actually wants to be a member of it or not. Presumably, the human who is born is so in a hospital run by society. He (or she) is aided into existence by doctors who are trained and given knowledge by society. He or she enjoys electricity, medicine and comforts which, without society wouldn’t exist at all. Being human means being part of civilization. Being part of civilization should reasonably mean every human born into it should be registered and acknowledged, given rights and should be bestowed with duties and privileges entitled to all members. And all have right to be members.

So social services can take your kids away, why is this so bad in principle? It’s, of course, heartbreaking to imagine parents being unjustly robbed of their children but we should NEVER forget why they exist in the first place. It’s not for some ambiguous conspiracy network to enslave your posterity. We realized, as a society, that some parents abuse their children. They sometimes treat them with more contempt and hatred and neglect than love, compassion and tenderness. Does society have a responsibility towards such children? Should we not include this protection as one of our most proud principles? Parents do NOT own their children, they have rights that go above and beyond the family bond. If you bring a child into this world, you better take care of it, or else you may lose that privilege.

I’m rambling. Peace out.