Thread: What is a Terrorist?

Like democracy is such a good thing. It's actually fundamentally opposed to individual liberty.

Example 1: Someone goes into a neighbourhood and goes door to door asking if people want a new motorcycle. Anyone who says 'yes' gives the person $10,000 and they go out and buy a motorcycle. They get it the next day. Wow, what a nice person, right? Nothing wrong here.

Example 2: Someone goes into a neighbourhood and goes door to door asking if people want a new motorcycle. He tallies up all the 'yes' and 'no' votes. If more than 50% of the people in the neighbourhood said 'yes', he goes door to door and takes $10,000 by force, from everyone, including the people that said 'no'. The next day, everyone in the neighbourhood gets a new motorcycle.

Can anyone see the fundamental difference between the two scenarios?

Originally Posted by drewmandan

Like democracy is such a good thing. It's actually fundamentally opposed to individual liberty.

Example 1: Someone goes into a neighbourhood and goes door to door asking if people want a new motorcycle. Anyone who says 'yes' gives the person $10,000 and they go out and buy a motorcycle. They get it the next day. Wow, what a nice person, right? Nothing wrong here.

Example 2: Someone goes into a neighbourhood and goes door to door asking if people want a new motorcycle. He tallies up all the 'yes' and 'no' votes. If more than 50% of the people in the neighbourhood said 'yes', he goes door to door and takes $10,000 by force, from everyone, including the people that said 'no'. The next day, everyone in the neighbourhood gets a new motorcycle.

Can anyone see the fundamental difference between the two scenarios?

The first scenario requires a billionaire to go door to door when he would obviously send his butler?

uh....

well, its human nature to give up certain aspects of free will, so someone else can have the burden of telling us what to do

which is why for a large portion of our history, we had kings and queens which is illogical in light of how important liberty is to us. but makes sense when you understand how lazy people are when it comes to actually acting out something. even if that action is thinking for yourself, baaaaaa