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The reason for all laws is to protect individual rights, and never for "the common good"
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2023 Jun 16, 10:08am 227 views 6 comments
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clambo
2023 Jun 16, 10:12am
As far as I am aware, the USA is one of the few countries in the world which protects speech by law.
Asshole liberals and confused do-gooders are trying to restrict it.
Asshole liberals and confused do-gooders are trying to restrict it.
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Patrick
2023 Jun 16, 10:45am
Patrick
2023 Jun 16, 10:45am
I was quite shocked that Britain and Ireland have nothing like the First Amendment.
You can say only what the government says you can say, and they change what you can say all the time.
You can say only what the government says you can say, and they change what you can say all the time.
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Patrick
2024 Feb 6, 11:44am
Patrick
2024 Feb 6, 11:44am
https://www.arkmedic.info/p/the-new-eugenics-movement-part-1
Except the problem is that it is a false dichotomy. There are not just two options and even if there were the situation has arisen because either some very evil person has tied people to the tracks, or the 5 people on on track are planning a mass suicide. Other than pulling the lever and killing the poor single guy, you might be able to derail or stop the train or save the people on the track in another way.
The trolley problem therefore appeals to an inhumane logic in order to suck you into accepting the idea that it is ethical to sacrifice a person’s human rights “for the greater good”.
This is what all totalitarian regimes use as bait for the population, failing to declare who would be the group in charge of deciding what the greater good is.
An example of how normalising this psychopathic ideology ends up is the forced donation of organs from political prisoners in China - “for the greater good” (because everybody has a spare kidney, right?).
Another example is seen in a famous socialist manifesto from 1930s Germany, the concluding points of the “25 points” of the Nazi (National socialist party) manifesto.
Reiterated in this excellent article from the Academy of Ideas outlining who the “greater good” philosophy is used as a tool for social control.
This collectivist mindset is foundational to communism, fascism and socialism: “The common good before the individual good.” proclaimed one of collectivism’s most infamous adherents (Adolf Hitler). The doctrine of collectivism has been put into practice by many dictators such as Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao. Death, destruction and suffering on a mass scale was the end-result in each case.
Laws should never be made for "the common good", because such laws always trample individual rights for the sake of someone's vision of what "the common good" might be, such as this Irish woman legislator's argument that freedom of speech must be subservient to the daily whims of sexual deviants:
https://patriots.win/p/16bPeXp7aj/we-are-restricting-freedom-but-w/c/
She openly admits that her goal is to restrict freedom of speech yet further in Ireland. Every "hate speech" law is a direct attack on the most important freedom, freedom of speech, and therefore is completely illegitimate and must never be obeyed or enforced.