Nobody should care about death rates and bullshit statistics

[Serkat]

It seems to me that the word "freedom" must be incredibly hard to understand. Of course everybody thinks that "freedom" is super awesome but only so long as we have - security, happy cancer-free people, tapdancing squirrels inhabiting our streets and no conflicts whatsoever. I call bullshit on that. Freedom isn't about whether people feel good, about whether they are healthy, sane or well-intentioned. It's not about whether they are more or less likely to commit crimes or kill people or whether somebody's feelings get hurt. Freedom is independent of bullshit statistics and concepts that have no relevance whatsoever. I assume that most to all of you have experienced a close person dieing of "unnatural" causes. This is what life is like. You can't fix that by pushing a bunch of bullshit legislation. Kids getting run over by cars, men in their 40s dieing of alcohol poisoning or lung cancer, people rendered incapable of leaving their house due to obesity, a husband stabbing his wife in a fit of jealousy - these are the results of freedom. And I am fucking FINE with that and so should you. I am fucking FINE with a family member dieing because our society is a free one. I'm fine with losing a leg in a car accident because some asshole thought it would be a good idea to drive drunk. That's better than having a fucking government-controlled camera in your car analyzing your ability to drive and tracking your every move. I don't want the government restricting everyone's freedom only so that a few scaredy-cats think it makes a fucking difference whether they cry about someone's death now or 10 years later. Freedom and truth are values. Health and security are bullshit that can't hold a candle to these. I don't fucking care if religion makes people feel better. Nobody should fucking care. If religious belief made you invincible and gave you the ability to fly I wouldn't give two shits about that. I don't care how many more people would die if Heroin were legal. People are dieing of Heroin right now and it's only a miniscule fraction of the amount of people dieing from alcohol or tobacco. It's like fucking less than 1% because everybody is fucking smart enough to know that you shouldn't ever take Heroin. There's absolutely no need for it to be banned. Nobody would friggin ban alcohol or tobacco just because people die of it. Nobody gives a shit, Heroin should be legal. Nobody should fucking care if 99% of the population think Heroin should be illegal. That doesn't have any relevance at all. That's not democracy, that's mob rule with legislation based on no intelligent values whatsoever. Most people being tools isn't a good basis to run a country on. Whatever the fuck happened to you can't have you cake and eat it too? You have to make sacrifices in this world, is that too hard to understand? If people are free then people will die, kill and kill themselves. FINE - do it. The point of having a democratic government was never to make sure that nobody dies, that's totalitarianism. Also, "democratic" doesn't mean that the majority of people can legislate what a minority can or can not do. That's not democracy, that's a fucking dictatorship. Only because most people don't like Chio chips, doesn't mean we can just ban them. Democracy means - in my estimation - that you give power to the individual (who is part of the demos) rather than having a bullshit communist collectivist system of everybody agreeing with everybody on everything. The point of the government is to make sure that these differences can be held and aren't suppressed. [/rage]