US gun laws: disarming a nation can be done, Japan took all the swords from its samurai. Weapons-confiscations programmes, known as ‘sword hunts’, occurred throughout Japanese history. Today, all firearms are owned or controlled by the government, as in the case with most modern nation-states. [More]Hahahahaha.
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I occasionally argue that a VAST cross-section of society would be better off being slaves. More and more frequently as time goes on, I have been confronted by individuals who are obviously cut out for that life and no other. They want to be taken care of. They are willing to trade ALL their rights for whatever security anyone else would provide for them. Worse yet, they want to force everyone else to accept that same deal.
ReplyDeleteFor example, take Peter Kallender, a resident of Massachusetts, who, in arguing against the planned expansion of his neighbor's private airstrip, told the Board of Selectmen quite seriously that "I'd like to create a climate where neighbors control what I do." And he meant every word of it. Here is a man naturally born to the yoke.
The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment practically destroyed the only ecological niches for which such people are suited, by their own admissions. I say "practically" because it is still possible to obtain such an arrangement, provided one is willing to settle for the government as his only legally permissible master.
I say, let's re-privatize indentured servitude by mutual agreement between master and servant. Give those who only want to be powerless dependents the ability to choose their own masters on the free market and obtain whatever security and nurturing they choose. Those who accept this deal will retain the rights of human beings (unlike slaves of old) but will surrender the rights of citizens (foremost among them, the right to vote). This will go a long way towards helping to reverse the "Gresham's Law" drain that these people are currently imposing on everybody else's liberties.
"I occasionally argue that a VAST cross-section of society would be better off being slaves."
ReplyDeleteI know a lot of readers would be quick to call the above poster a nutjob. But I won't. For the simple reason that I personally know a number of people who lived in the USSR and are nostalgic for the old days.
Slaves? Maybe not. But serfs? Without a doubt!