by Tinker » Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:53 pm
Azari is on point.
This is one of those issues where I bristle when someone tells me this is a free country. The number of fundamental rights that I *DON'T* have in this country outweigh the freedoms that I do have.
In a free country I would be able to eat mushroom caps at a gay polygamist wedding. In a free country this would just be accepted, we wouldn't even be discussing whether or not it should be legal. If we are having the discussion at all, that's how you can tell it's not a free country.
If I don't have the right to eat what I want, or enter into a family relationship arrangement with whoever I want, how am I free? That's the most fundamental and basic rights imaginable. The right to control my own body, and the right to enter into relationships with other people as I want. That's the very foundation of freedom. The rest of my rights are built on that foundation. Either I am sovereign over myself or I am not. If I am sovereign, then I am free, if I am not, then I am not free. Which is it?
The canary didn't die because this mine is dangerous, it died because it's lazy and wasn't raised with a proper work ethic.