I have rarely done this, but there is a blog entry by Claire Wolfe that is so good, I'm going to give you a taste and then send you there to read the rest.
The menace of “do somethingness"
You know how people are always trying to find solutions to
gigantic problems, and (because their only tool is government), making a worse
mess of everything? Blame “do somethingness.” If we could only end the “do
something” plague, clever, independent people might actually set about coming up
with real solutions to real-world messes. ...Read the rest...
Wasn't that wonderful? Spread it around to "those who don't get it", but who might someday.
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Nobody should be blamed of law pollution. What should be done is to proactively review all laws of the state and make it more applicable to the present society. The article "the menace of do somethingness" is a good article to analyze. In general perspective, laws are there to regulate the individualistic and egocentric behaviors of man. This is not to curtail the rights, liberty and freedom of man. In fact, it facilitates the total exercise of an individual's rights, freedom and liberty.
ReplyDeleteIf a law adheres strictly to the Zero Aggression Principle it "facilitates the total exercise of an individual's rights, freedom and liberty", otherwise it does the opposite. And that is the case with almost every "law" that has been passed in the past several centuries. To pretend otherwise is to not understand "an individual's rights, freedom and liberty" in even the most superficial way.
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