A simple annoyance with society.

Yes, I’m annoyed with society as a whole. Why? Because individuals claim that due to their personal freedoms, no one else should have personal freedoms. The only person who is truly free is the one who can afford to hire enough lawyers to make sure that they can sue everyone else before they get a chance to sue you…but if you have enough money to do that, the government is harassing you and limiting your freedoms.

 

So in the end does freedom truly exist? Yes I have the freedom to think what I want (as long as I don’t’ say it) I have the freedom to go where I want (provided someone else doesn’t want me to go there) I have the freedom to buy what I want (provided I have the proper licenses, permits, training and certification to be allowed to buy it), and I have the freedom to read what I want (provided it hasn’t been banned by the government(Roth vs. US), however this was luckily overturned in 1973(?) as a violation of constitutional rights(Miller vs. California)(Ayn Rand was actually banned prior to this ruling)) If you view freedoms as a whole, we are given the small, simple choices as a freedom, those freedoms are used as a distraction while our remaining freedoms are stripped away.   

 

Now the event that brought this up…My office has recently banned personal radios unless they are hooked up to headphones because one person complained….just one. However, you are also not permitted to spray perfumes, smoke with-in 50ft of a building entrance, and several people have even started counting how many times you go to the bathroom during the day to see if that needs to be regulated. While I understand much of this is directly related to legitimate logical reasons, I’m not saying it’s good, I’m not saying it’s bad, just that our freedoms are being challenged every day and most people don’t know, or care enough to speak up. 

 

Did you know that there are people pushing to have all large SUVs and cars that get below a specified MPG level banned? Or that there is still a (weak) push to get Alcohol banned, or that there are several groups pushing to have videogames with any violence banned? (MAVAV) Not to mention the Banned Books List…at what point did we have to create a list? Shouldn’t people know that you shouldn’t put these books in a school library? Do we really need a list to specify it?  What’s the point of librarians if they don’t keep an eye on what books are in their own library?  

Regulations, Pointless Laws, religion dictating policy (where it should be ethics and morals), even the simple act of taking an idea, or a point of commonsense and putting it in writing so it's completly black and white without any leaway, freedom is under attack, and it’s those we hire to defend it who are standing initiating it. 

 

Yes, I know I am a very conservative individual, but I also feel that it should not fall to the government to save us from ourselves. 

The day the government tells me that I can’t eat bacon, or steak, or steak wrapped in bacon with a triple of Johnny Walker Blue, because it’s not good for me is the day I will personally lead the rebellion. 

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