While most of whats listed are legitimate choices in life, obeying the law is not. We are bombarded with laws which inhibit our freedoms, yet we are constantly being told we live as free people.
Of course, laws represent sacrifices to our individual liberties we are told we're expected to tolerate, or even embrace, for the greater good; so that we can live the quality of life we live today.
These terms "greater good" and "quality" are obviously subjective. What I believe is for the "greater good" is completely seperate from what you might think. Thankfully, we live in a democratic society in which we're represented in government by trustworthy, principled, intelligent people. We know they are all these good things because the majority of citizens voted for them.
Because the majority voted for these representatives, they're empowered to create the laws which they, and the people who support them, believe are for the greater good. Thus, these representatives are empowered by the majority in the country to suppress the desires and wants of the minority.
We're told this system works because it would be silly to have the opposite occur, the people with the smallest amount of support suppressing the majority.
Of course, because I have freedom of expression and am able to criticize my government without brutal suppression as some might experience in other countries, such as China, I've been bombarded with this rediculous notion: I am free.
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you have the freedom to obey the law, or not. Protest the law, or not. That is the greater good!
I think you missed the point.
"ridiculous" and "separate"
It seems that you have found the internal contradictions inherent to your current world-view.
No. I don't see any internal contradictions. Your quoting of two individual words I use in seperate parts of my post provide me with no reason to think I contradicted myself either.
The words were spelled wrong, silly. They have nothing to do with the contradiciton inherent in your world-view.
sorry for my unpolished riting. I'll try to dew bedder.
must have been that summer you spent in newfieland.
Never been to newfieland. Must be the poor edjamacashin here in nova scosha.
You can take off the golden shirt now.
i was more illustrating my inability to spell.
you know Pirates invented Democracy right? ye-AAAAaaaaaaRGH!
I knew it was the pirates. I just knew it.
Those damn pirates. Just as bad as those evil terrorists. Hey! Which nation can we invade to go after pirates???
Portland, Maine?
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