By your silence I take we are now in agreement.
No one here can govern me without my consent.
Right?
No one here may empower another as their agent or representative to do that which they cannot do themselves.
Right?
Or is there someone here who wants to claim I personally have the right to govern THEM without their consent?
To argue AGAINST my position is to argue FOR me being able to govern YOU personally or by representation without YOUR consent.
Who here wishes to argue THAT?
You like that word, right, but i have a better one for you, ability.
In debate world, the right to govern is the only important thing, in the real world the ability to govern is the only important thing.
And this has no inherent good or evil to it, i can be governed by a sociopath with a machete sans any consent of my own, or i can be governed by a group of elected officials elected by other citizens of my country.
But it all boils down to how can make me do what they want me to do, and how they can enforce me to do what they want me to do. The most perfect government in the world would mean nothing if they have no ability to enforce their power.
"Force of arms is not morally right!" you will cry, completely missing the point. Force of arms is not always right, true, but myself, and the vast majority of the other citizens of Canada, agree that this system is fair, helpful, and generally a good force in the lives and well being of canadians, as much as is possible within a system, that by virtue of being comprised of people, with the inherent flaws people have, will not be perfect.
You simply do not have the ability to enforce what you believe to be the law rob. You have neither the force of arms, nor the will of the people, beyond some poor folks searching for a cause you have managed to convince. You are not just against the government, but your against the millions of regular folks, who hear your schtick and respond with an eye roll and a hearty laugh. The millions who understand that implementing a class based system such as yours would do nothing but harm a great, and prosperous country.
I , for one, would be disgusted to see a Canada that had 2 classes of people, those who pay, and those who use. And the vast majority of folks shown your ideas, feel the same way.
The impact of an idea can often be seen in how detractors react to it, a frightening idea, capable of causing change that the detractor would not want, is typically hidden, squirreled away, or ignored. And rob, whenever i can i introduce new folks to your ideas, there is nothing scary about them, there is nothing valuable about them, they are simply another in a long line of laughable garbage i like to share with folks to get a good giggle out of its inanity. And i don't give them my version of what you say, for all my ability to write , i could not do justice to your ideas myself, and the comedic tragedy that is the freeman ideology has much more impact when you realize that the person saying it, is actually , legitimately trying to convince people, whether for a con, or a misguided understanding of the law, it has a Rik Mayal level of absurdity, that the best jokes i could make about it, don't quite manage.
