Personal Responsibility
he put himself in a dangerous situation
he paid the price .
That's a very concise way to put it, and i agree.
Reminds me of something i was thinking about the other day...
If it is the responsibility of the government to control my actions... then how can i be responsible for anything i do?
But if i must be responsible, then how can the government punish me for anything i've only done to myself?
By growing a plant and smoking it or eating it and feeling better for a while... how have i harmed anyone? How have i impinged anyone's liberties? How have i damaged or stolen anyone's property?
If they want to say i can't do things that help me, then they can punish themselves if i manage to do it anyway, because they failed to control my actions.
If they are responsible for controlling what i do with my own body, then they need to be tried for... uh... regulatory negligence? (lol)
If they make it their duty to regulate me and deprive me of relief, then failing their duty should mean they have to penalize themselves.
If they're not going to penalize themselves for failing to control my actions, then they are not upholding their duty to regulate me.
They believe it is their duty to regulate me, so they should be punished for failing to control my actions.
If i should be punished for failing to control my actions, then they are not allowed to claim "duty" of restricting me.
Let me choose, and i will accept responsibility.
Revoke my choice prior to incident, and i refuse to be responsible for whatever happens, due to someone else unjustifiably preventing my rightful pursuit of harmless happiness.
If anything bad happens because of their unacceptable imposition of invalid and unjustifiable, unconstitutional restrictions... IT IS THEIR FAULT FOR APPLYING FORCE UNJUSTLY.
That is a problem, isn't it?
Who is responsible for my choices? Me, or them?
If i am to be responsible for my choices, i must be allowed to make them. If i am not allowed to choose to responsibly pursue what is right for me... then someone else has made choices on my behalf, without my permission, and is therefore responsible for the outcome.
It is exactly the same reasoning as: if you walk up to a stranger and punch them in the face for no reason, and they turn around and grievously injure you... that's Your fault.
If another human chooses to impose undeserved injustice upon me, and i retaliate in a way that causes permanent damage to them... that's Their fault; badge or not.
If they go around threatening people and instigating mortal combat without sufficient justification... they deserve to be put down like any other aggressive wild animal.
They are adults. They should fucking know better by now, they have had plenty of time and opportunity to stop and think about their actions. Irony. They refuse to be responsible for choosing to impose injustice! IT'S A CHOICE! They can choose not to do the wrong thing, and if they instead choose to do the wrong thing to people who do not deserve it, then they have earned whatever is necessary for that person to defend themselves and preserve their own well-being.
I wonder how many of them realize people have started to see things this way.
I have no problem with people being granted the privilege of authority; i have Every problem with them abusing it.
I do think it's helpful to have a group of people commissioned with the authority to intervene in cases where reckless or dangerous people are causing problems for innocent people... but as soon as part of that job becomes oppressing people unjustly and ruining innocent lives, that's unacceptable.
It's ironic that so many of those employed by the "corrections industry," refuse to correct themselves, and spend a significant amount of energy Uncorrecting others.
