The justification for freedom is that we don't know, we can never be sure we're right when we think so ..... And who are we to judge for our fellow man .... Humility, the belief that, after all, I can try and persuade you, but I can't force you ...... must ultimately rest on the recognition of the limitations of our knowledge.
We don't say there's no such thing as sin, all we say is we can't be sure we're right when we think so.
You know that's the problem, and it's not easy to face.....
We want freedom, in my opinion, 1st, because we cannot know, we can never be sure we're right, and therefore we have no right to force our views on other people.....
And 2nd, because the thing that's really important, are the individual's own values, and their own beliefs.....
If you're not free to sin, then neither are you free to be virtuous.......
Virtue is a meaningless concept, unless an individual has a free will to choose between one act and another ~~ Milton Friedman via a University discussion/open-question type lecture via
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9UeuLj5fA(particularly when it's an act that involves consenting adults as all who take part in it) ........ VictimLess crime is not crime .....
--Law enforcement was invented by a guy named Robert Peele, in England, in the early 1800's. And he designed it to protect people from other people. What is being done with drug laws, is we are telling Law Enforcement to try and protect people from themselfves. They were not designed, nor are they capable of teaching people how to have good habits, and not engage in consentual behavior with other adults.
--Prohibiting the drugs is essentially seeing them as the problem, instead of the people. We were taught to think that drugs are bad...
--However, the drugs do not have a choice, conscioussness, or awareness at all. They are inanimate, and lifeless objects, and thus, not capable of having any responsibility for any harm that is done with them. Humans, on the other hand, have a choice, conscioussness, and awareness.....and are very capable of having responsibility for our actions and choices ...... especially we adults
--The reason we decided to start teaching people how to have good habits is multi-sided, but a brief summary of just a few of those sides is The WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union), their influence over the politicians and policy makers in the late 1800's and early 1900's, and their insistence of removing alcohol and any use of it from society.
--The chinese immigrants in the late 1800's were another major cause of it. And that was brought about by opium use and opium dens of the chinese. White men who lived anywhere near these chinese immigrants, feared their daughters would go to these opium dens and get high, which was not a problem.... but the problem was that they were afraid the opium might influence them to possibly sleep with these chinese immigrants.
--Black people and cocaine use(the newspaper articles claiming that cocaine made them superhuman in essence, via making them better marksmen, made them go on a frenzy and rape white women, made them disobey, and made them immune to .32 caliber bullets, which is why Many southern states' law enforcemnt at that time swithed to .38 caliber bullets..... because of the New York Times article in 1913 or 1914 ...... NEGRO COCAINE "FIENDS" NEW SOUTHERN MENACE
New York Times, Sunday February 8, 1914
Murder and Insanity Increasing Among Lower Class Because They Have Taken to "Sniffing" Since Being Deprived of Whisky by Prohibition
Edward Huntington Williams, M.D.
--Also not given enough credit, is the beginning of literalism in interpretation of the protestant bible...... Prior to the early 20th century, the bible had not been taken literally......
Literalism is a very new phenomenon. In the 2000 year history of the protestant gospels, it's only been about 100 years, in which christians have read them as literal and inerrant (incapable of being wrong) . That might come as a shock to a lot of christians, but it is fact, not opinion, or fabrication. source.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Jivan2MPQThe concept of literalsm can be traced to the early 20th century. A group of protestants, particularly in the U.S. and Europe, who in response to the scientific revolution, decided that..... if that which is true, is that which can be factually verified, then the gospels must be able to be factually verified, otherwise they're not true ......... and from there it took off!!
And that's never been how the gospel's were intended to be read.....
But that being said, a better path seems to be to start recognizing the difference between religion and faith....
Religion is just a language of symbols & metaphors to help us express faith to ourselves, & to others. If we can just figure out that the faith that so many people around the world have, is deeply held in common, and religion is what's different, we'd see that religion is not the end that it's viewed as, but just a means to an end, or the path/journey to a destination.......& the values that matter the most, the destination, which is the faith(in whatever=protestant,catholic,muslim,pagan,etc.,etc...) that sustains us..... we all have in common, and are not very fucking different at all......narrow minded ass humans though...... just like women, I always say, can't live with em, can't kill em
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--But there is much dirtier laundry than above that also contributed to this ScumBag Fuckery which is essentially prohibitions of anything! it really is nonsense to prohibit anything in a society whose inhabitants claim to be free individuals with free will, living in a free society. Nothing about any of those 3 is true with the prohibition of anything.
And this all ties directly in with the shift of society's belief in individual responsibility, to the late 1800's, and early 1900's belief in Social Responsibility... that's the rationale and logic behind all this childish fucking nonsense of prohibiting anything!
That was the beginning of the ScumBags rise to power... it was the very cornerstone on which the ScumBags laid the foundation for taking over this country..... And since then, we haven't looked back..... One hell of a band-wagon, one must admit...
yep gotta hand it to those ScumBags, and give credit where credit is due I say,
after all, can't take life too serious, cause ain't none of us getting out of it alive
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