Continuing the Patrick Henry Discussion
This isn't about forced servitude, that is, honest slavery, but rather a slavery to the government. About how poorly the government can treat you "for your benefit." This isn't about automatic, instant, death, but a premature death, or maybe, not even your premature death, but the premature death of your grandchildren.
This is all about environmentalism, more specifically, Global Warming.
This country has been hit with a green fever, and the people are all clamoring for the government to take action, to fight a war on warming.
The Clean Air Act, Carbon Credits, renewable energy subsidization, mandating ethanol, outlawing incandescent lights and plastic bags, and most of all, energy caps. We're getting more and more government control.
What's next?
At what point do we decide that living like pack animals is not worth it? At what point do we agree a beautiful earth is desecrated by an ugly administration? At what point do we yell, "To hell with the earth!"
Surely if the only way to save the environment is to turn the world into a living Orwellian nightmare, the environment is not worth it. Why should we work to preserve the future, if the future IS slavery?
Nat commented on how the real question is about serving your neighbor. True. But think. In the case of your unborn children, the children to whom the future really belongs, YOU have to chose what freedom, and what slavery they will live with. And to choose, you must decide what option is best.
In fact, with that thought, we have destroyed all relativism, and forced ourselves into a choice of absolutes. Instead of choosing what we want, we have to choose what is right, what is right for future generations.
As I mentioned in my first comment to my previous post, it's relative, relative of how much life, to how much slavery. Certainly, most people will be fine with a few extra taxes to put public trashcans in parks, but how far do we go? Are we all really okay with turning our lives over to a new Hitler or Stalin, Voldemort or Big Brother?
This is all about environmentalism, more specifically, Global Warming.
This country has been hit with a green fever, and the people are all clamoring for the government to take action, to fight a war on warming.
The Clean Air Act, Carbon Credits, renewable energy subsidization, mandating ethanol, outlawing incandescent lights and plastic bags, and most of all, energy caps. We're getting more and more government control.
What's next?
At what point do we decide that living like pack animals is not worth it? At what point do we agree a beautiful earth is desecrated by an ugly administration? At what point do we yell, "To hell with the earth!"
Surely if the only way to save the environment is to turn the world into a living Orwellian nightmare, the environment is not worth it. Why should we work to preserve the future, if the future IS slavery?
Nat commented on how the real question is about serving your neighbor. True. But think. In the case of your unborn children, the children to whom the future really belongs, YOU have to chose what freedom, and what slavery they will live with. And to choose, you must decide what option is best.
In fact, with that thought, we have destroyed all relativism, and forced ourselves into a choice of absolutes. Instead of choosing what we want, we have to choose what is right, what is right for future generations.
As I mentioned in my first comment to my previous post, it's relative, relative of how much life, to how much slavery. Certainly, most people will be fine with a few extra taxes to put public trashcans in parks, but how far do we go? Are we all really okay with turning our lives over to a new Hitler or Stalin, Voldemort or Big Brother?
posted by Paul @ 4:03 PM
1 Comments:
At 6:30 AM,
Aaron.D.Nemoyer said…
Not to mention the fact that there is no significant man-made global warming to begin with.
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