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<blockquote data-quote="orkan" data-source="post: 2153429" data-attributes="member: 25377"><p>Your hospital analogy doesn't scare me. It proves my point. An emergency on the part of someone else, does not make an emergency for me. An emergency for me, does not make one for someone else. None of the foundational bedrock principles of personal liberty and ownership are subject to the definitions or declarations of someone else. No one owes me health care. No one owes me water. No one owes me food. Whatever they own or whatever skills they have, are THEIRS. Because they are in possession of those things and those skills, THEY set the price by which those things are distributed. They decide who, when, how, and how much. This is a universal truth, up to and including my death and the death of everyone I care about. I am not justified in taking by force or dictating the price of any of the goods and services that any other person or group of persons owns or has. If your life is worth so much to you... then you should be willing to pay any price asked for it.</p><p></p><p>My physical life has very little value when compared to the value of my soul. My soul, is my most precious possession. I'll use what life I have to pursue the best of things and attempt to help as many as I can. Yet, inevitably, this life will end. Whether tomorrow or at some point in the distant future. All that makes me who I am, however, will persist. This petty blink of existence here weighs nothing against the eternal home of my soul. No one owes me anything. I'll negotiate with them for the things that I desire, but what is theirs is theirs. They have no responsibility for my needs other than that which they agree to bear.</p><p></p><p>People act as if any other attitude is just. It isn't just. It is wrong. If you accept the mindset that it is OK for someone to be forced to sell something at a price they do not agree to, then you not only fully support socialism, you automatically agree to cooperating in kind when someone comes to force <strong><em>YOU</em></strong> to do <strong><em>their</em></strong> bidding. Would you like that? Would you like someone deciding for you what you will do? Because THAT is exactly what you are talking about. Yet society at large is too cowardly to go do this dirty work themselves. Instead they elect other people and empower them to go do the taking for you. Then you'll have the opportunity to claim that you didn't want it to happen, yet all the while ensuring it would happen. When they come for you and what you own, I hope you will be as cavalier with your socialistic attitude.</p><p></p><p>If I have a choice between forcing someone else's hand, and dying. I'll happily die. I can attempt to negotiate with them, but if they don't want to negotiate... there is nothing I can do. If this past year has shown me anything, it's that I am far more alone than I had ever dreamed. The core principles of ownership and individual responsibility that I thought were alive and well in this country, are far more dead than I had ever imagined. I have an obligation to stay here and help as many people as I can, but on the day of my death, it will indeed be a reward. I never understood that when I was young. People dying and others saying "they received their great reward," never made sense to me. As an adult, I understand fully. It is torturous to see the twisted reality of socially accepted norms work its wicked ways as we slide closer to oblivion. People are so accustomed to seeing things taken from others, it doesn't even bother people anymore. People's malevolence is astonishing and seems to know no boundaries. What value is my life if I have to force someone else's cooperation to keep it? I made an agreement with my creator and myself to never knowingly participate in that kind of treachery. I will stand in the face of certain death and spit on those that would subjugate my fellow man. I don't care if I'm the last one on earth with that mindset, I will not set it down. I will only ever ask for another's cooperation. I will not force it, lest I be forced myself in the future. I will not cooperate with nor toy with the darkest of forces that would lead me to dictate to another the value of their property or skills.</p><p></p><p>There are eternal consequences that reach far beyond this life. I will happily accept persecution here by untrustworthy men that do not respect individuality, if it guarantees my place with the Father after this life. All of you owe me nothing. As a function of that reality, I owe <strong><em>YOU</em></strong> nothing other than that which I choose to give of my own volition. Any attempt made to make it otherwise, I will resist. It matters not to me if I'm the last person on earth that holds the belief that individual ownership is sacred. I will keep my soul free from the allure of those darkest of forces that would entice me to lay claim to that which is not mine. My soul will not be food for the beast. Offer yourself if you wish... but I will not.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]cfQsU6iCL7U[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orkan, post: 2153429, member: 25377"] Your hospital analogy doesn't scare me. It proves my point. An emergency on the part of someone else, does not make an emergency for me. An emergency for me, does not make one for someone else. None of the foundational bedrock principles of personal liberty and ownership are subject to the definitions or declarations of someone else. No one owes me health care. No one owes me water. No one owes me food. Whatever they own or whatever skills they have, are THEIRS. Because they are in possession of those things and those skills, THEY set the price by which those things are distributed. They decide who, when, how, and how much. This is a universal truth, up to and including my death and the death of everyone I care about. I am not justified in taking by force or dictating the price of any of the goods and services that any other person or group of persons owns or has. If your life is worth so much to you... then you should be willing to pay any price asked for it. My physical life has very little value when compared to the value of my soul. My soul, is my most precious possession. I'll use what life I have to pursue the best of things and attempt to help as many as I can. Yet, inevitably, this life will end. Whether tomorrow or at some point in the distant future. All that makes me who I am, however, will persist. This petty blink of existence here weighs nothing against the eternal home of my soul. No one owes me anything. I'll negotiate with them for the things that I desire, but what is theirs is theirs. They have no responsibility for my needs other than that which they agree to bear. People act as if any other attitude is just. It isn't just. It is wrong. If you accept the mindset that it is OK for someone to be forced to sell something at a price they do not agree to, then you not only fully support socialism, you automatically agree to cooperating in kind when someone comes to force [B][I]YOU[/I][/B] to do [B][I]their[/I][/B] bidding. Would you like that? Would you like someone deciding for you what you will do? Because THAT is exactly what you are talking about. Yet society at large is too cowardly to go do this dirty work themselves. Instead they elect other people and empower them to go do the taking for you. Then you'll have the opportunity to claim that you didn't want it to happen, yet all the while ensuring it would happen. When they come for you and what you own, I hope you will be as cavalier with your socialistic attitude. If I have a choice between forcing someone else's hand, and dying. I'll happily die. I can attempt to negotiate with them, but if they don't want to negotiate... there is nothing I can do. If this past year has shown me anything, it's that I am far more alone than I had ever dreamed. The core principles of ownership and individual responsibility that I thought were alive and well in this country, are far more dead than I had ever imagined. I have an obligation to stay here and help as many people as I can, but on the day of my death, it will indeed be a reward. I never understood that when I was young. People dying and others saying "they received their great reward," never made sense to me. As an adult, I understand fully. It is torturous to see the twisted reality of socially accepted norms work its wicked ways as we slide closer to oblivion. People are so accustomed to seeing things taken from others, it doesn't even bother people anymore. People's malevolence is astonishing and seems to know no boundaries. What value is my life if I have to force someone else's cooperation to keep it? I made an agreement with my creator and myself to never knowingly participate in that kind of treachery. I will stand in the face of certain death and spit on those that would subjugate my fellow man. I don't care if I'm the last one on earth with that mindset, I will not set it down. I will only ever ask for another's cooperation. I will not force it, lest I be forced myself in the future. I will not cooperate with nor toy with the darkest of forces that would lead me to dictate to another the value of their property or skills. There are eternal consequences that reach far beyond this life. I will happily accept persecution here by untrustworthy men that do not respect individuality, if it guarantees my place with the Father after this life. All of you owe me nothing. As a function of that reality, I owe [B][I]YOU[/I][/B] nothing other than that which I choose to give of my own volition. Any attempt made to make it otherwise, I will resist. It matters not to me if I'm the last person on earth that holds the belief that individual ownership is sacred. I will keep my soul free from the allure of those darkest of forces that would entice me to lay claim to that which is not mine. My soul will not be food for the beast. Offer yourself if you wish... but I will not. [MEDIA=youtube]cfQsU6iCL7U[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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