One of the worst things government does is force people to be around, and deal with, those they'd rather not associate with.
It doesn't matter if their reasons are often stupid.
One of the most fundamental human rights is the right of association. If you don't want to be around certain people, for any reason, no one should force you to.
Apparently, many people don't want to be around others based on some accident of birth-- skin color, language spoken, or whether that person is Jewish. Other people-- smart people-- only discriminate based on what someone chooses to do.
I don't want to have any interactions with cops, tax collectors, government bureaucrats, or other career criminals. I don't care about any random factor about people that no one had any choice about. I shouldn't be forced to interact with those who choose archation, yet it's "illegal" for me to refuse their advances.
That's evil. Government did that.
“One of the most fundamental human rights is the right of association.”
ReplyDeleteI agree. And it is also the one; and that is saying something in this era of routine natural rights violation, that is most thoroughly abrogated by the State and general society. Its near universal repudiation has even mistakenly driven some to try and substitute an extended form of property right in its place to try and recover and compensate for its denial.
Yep. Adding a rights violation on top of a rights violation doesn't cure the original rights violation; it just makes things worse.
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