i am tired of this hyperbolic bs
that how we go about doing something can be as important as what we do should be self-evident. it isn't theory, it's a path and the one you propose leads to increasingly less freedom. y'all keep on coming up with reasons to bypass the rights of the individual through force, but these schemes have always ended in disaster. i can understand the rationale behind these efforts. there is nearly unimaginable suffering in this world and there is hardly a soul who doesn't want to see its end, but solving our problems at the point of a gun has historically led to tyranny and an entirely new set of problems. i know, i know, you see no gun, but what do you think enforces the mandates of the state? it is the threat of violence and incarceration that gives the state its power and this is the means by which you would change the world.
maybe you see no point in freedom if it means that some will be allowed to suffer. i see that point and you are welcome to sacrifice all you wish to end the pain, but you are not allowed to make that decision for the rest of us. you could march out every bureaucrat, surrounded by the armies of the world, and confiscate every last bit of wealth from everyone on the planet. you could then divide it all between every last man woman and child and the very next day someone else would starve. within a week, a month, a year there would still be war and poverty, pain and suffering. soon we'd be back to exactly what we see today, we'd only have wasted a bit more time and created the sort of precedent that would allow for a future of endless tyrannies and further struggles of peoples searching for the freedoms they have lost.
a nation does not become great merely by working together, but by
choosing to work together. it may become powerful through force and it may become wealthy through force, but it is the choice that makes it great. you can accuse me of exaggerating the perils of relinquishing our hard won freedoms all you like, but history is on my side. the past is filled with societies forced to labor for a single purpose and some have even achieved great things, but each time they have ended in a population enslaved to the whims of the few. they have stagnated and died because their leaders lacked the vision to see their own flaws and the people were not allowed the freedom to alter their path toward destruction. i know all this means nothing to you. the average statist dupe has never endured real tyranny, so he embraces its precursors as a means to comfort. sure, the comfort is nice and a few lives may even be saved as a show of good faith, but the novelty fades as the chains multiply.