Yes. I do believe you should be free to do whatever you want with yourself, your body, and your rights, including selling them and giving them away. That's called Freedom.
I would never sell myself into slavery, but if someone wants to do that, then why should they not be allowed to?
There are many things other people do that I think are morally repugnant, or just outright stupid. Yet I do not go about trying to lord my morals over them and force them to stop their actions. They are free to do whatever the hell they want so long as it does not harm someone.
The two great cries of moral tyranny are "Think of the children!" and "It's for their own good."
Perhaps you simply don't understand what Liberty and Freedom are truly about.
Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. We had many, many long conversations about many things related to his service, including what he fought for, and the many various reason he fought for it. He said he fought for many reasons; because he was ordered to and didn't have a choice, because it was to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. To give people the freedom to choose how they will live their own lives, instead of letting other people force them to live their lives a certain way.
You have the right to vote however you wish to. And while he would think that what this person was doing in selling their vote was sad, he would be happy that he lived in a country where that man had the freedom to do with his vote what he wanted.
How is it adultery if an unmarried woman gets it on with an unmarried man? Oh, right. Fornication. Still, isn't it better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore than on the ground?
After all...
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted God gets quite irate...
"Fundamentally, we believe it is wrong to sell your vote," said John Aiken, a spokesman for the office. "There are people that have died for this country for our right to vote, and to take something that lightly, to say, 'I can be bought.'" [...] "It's a real shame"
I'm sorry, but my grandfather fought in both Korea and Vietnam, received the Purple Heart, and rose to the rank of Command Sargent Majour. He was also a life long Republican and a staunch Conservative. Old School Conservative, not this 'neo-con' crap.
And my grandfather, one of those men who fought and came close to dying for this right to vote, would find this person's arrest a travesty of what he fought for, because he also fought the that man's right to do whatever he wanted with his vote, include selling it.
Two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
It's not about the selling of fucking, per se, it's about the conditions which prostitutes are usually subjected to (pimps, madams, etc), and a misguided society trying to protect them from them.
And then there's the religious proscription. Which I'm having trouble finding in the Bible, but gosh darnit, all those Christians hate prostitution it seems, so it must be in the Bible.
Of course, the first reason completely ignores the fact that it's going to go on no matter what it's legality is, and that if you were truly concerned for the welfare of prostitutes you would make it legal, so they could run to the police to report crimes without worrying about being thrown in jail.
I really don't like John Lennon. He was an idealist, and like all other idealists, forgot that reality did not allow his beautiful utopian plans to come into existance, and he is responsible for a great deal of vapid people running around spouting politics that were great fourty years ago but are stagnating now. And I'm not even sure half of what the hippies had to say was even worth listening to, let alone good.
This is what happens when someone promises intangible things and bases their entire campaign upon promising 'change' and 'hope,' two things which mean whatever you want, and mean different things to different people.
Too bad he couldn't actually give real promises and expectations other than 'hope' this and 'change' that.
Bloody sheep. You all deserve the hell you're creating for us.
Not all of us are hypocrites who can't stand by their convictions.
I'd warrant that if there were some way to objectively quantify the rate of hypocrisy among the population in general and in the population segment that 'talks like that,' the rates would be about the same.
Some of us, who favor gun control, do not have any problem whatsoever with this decision. It seems like a perfectly reasonable view of the constitution as written. Trying to say otherwise is intellectually dishonest.
What I question is the constitution itself: Is the right to bear arms really a key element to protest against excessive government control? India didn't gain their independence through guns. Today, we don't need them.
India gained independence largely due to the fact that it was more work than they were worth.
The day the Stormtroopers come knocking at your door, you'll wish you had a gun.
The people can only overthrow a tyrannical government if they have weapons which enable them to do so.
Reality can be very disconcerting when one loses one's illusions and stops believing in fairy tales to keep one's self from crying in the dark in the night.
And we also have to define harm. I consider it far more harmful to hide the world from someone than to actually let them learn that the world is a strange and wondrous place.
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It's good to see someone out there who understands, even if it's an anonymous coward.
And when Security and the police shot him to death, it would be a net gain for the Free/Open Software Movements and for the world in General.
RMS is to Free/Open Source Movements as Jack Thompson is to the Anti-gaming Crusade
Yes. I do believe you should be free to do whatever you want with yourself, your body, and your rights, including selling them and giving them away. That's called Freedom.
I would never sell myself into slavery, but if someone wants to do that, then why should they not be allowed to?
There are many things other people do that I think are morally repugnant, or just outright stupid. Yet I do not go about trying to lord my morals over them and force them to stop their actions. They are free to do whatever the hell they want so long as it does not harm someone.
The two great cries of moral tyranny are "Think of the children!" and "It's for their own good."
Perhaps you simply don't understand what Liberty and Freedom are truly about.
I'm not taking the 'short view.' You're missing the point. Freedom is, period, or it is not. Period.
Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. We had many, many long conversations about many things related to his service, including what he fought for, and the many various reason he fought for it. He said he fought for many reasons; because he was ordered to and didn't have a choice, because it was to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. To give people the freedom to choose how they will live their own lives, instead of letting other people force them to live their lives a certain way.
You have the right to vote however you wish to. And while he would think that what this person was doing in selling their vote was sad, he would be happy that he lived in a country where that man had the freedom to do with his vote what he wanted.
Except we apparently don't live in that land.
How is it adultery if an unmarried woman gets it on with an unmarried man? Oh, right. Fornication. Still, isn't it better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore than on the ground?
After all...
Every sperm is sacred,
every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate...
I'm sorry, but my grandfather fought in both Korea and Vietnam, received the Purple Heart, and rose to the rank of Command Sargent Majour. He was also a life long Republican and a staunch Conservative. Old School Conservative, not this 'neo-con' crap.
And my grandfather, one of those men who fought and came close to dying for this right to vote, would find this person's arrest a travesty of what he fought for, because he also fought the that man's right to do whatever he wanted with his vote, include selling it.
Two reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
Of course, the first reason completely ignores the fact that it's going to go on no matter what it's legality is, and that if you were truly concerned for the welfare of prostitutes you would make it legal, so they could run to the police to report crimes without worrying about being thrown in jail.
I fail to see how parent can be redundant, when it was specifically replying only to its own parent, and has no siblings.
Someone mod parent +1, understands the reasons for the existence of the United States' bicameral legislature
Why the hell is my post modded funny? I'm entirely serious.
Thanks, asshole. That link crashed Firefox.
AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, not Auto-immune. It's an infectious disease, not a manifestation of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
Don't make me slap you.
Paul McCartney died in a car crash life four decades ago. That's an impersonator.
I really don't like John Lennon. He was an idealist, and like all other idealists, forgot that reality did not allow his beautiful utopian plans to come into existance, and he is responsible for a great deal of vapid people running around spouting politics that were great fourty years ago but are stagnating now. And I'm not even sure half of what the hippies had to say was even worth listening to, let alone good.
Don't mind me, just channelling Robert Heinlein again.
This is what happens when someone promises intangible things and bases their entire campaign upon promising 'change' and 'hope,' two things which mean whatever you want, and mean different things to different people.
Too bad he couldn't actually give real promises and expectations other than 'hope' this and 'change' that.
Bloody sheep. You all deserve the hell you're creating for us.
And if you should find businesses listening to their customers, be not afraid, for you are in Elysium, and already dead!
What in the name of horrible trolling combined with advertising was that aborted abomination?
Not all of us are hypocrites who can't stand by their convictions.
I'd warrant that if there were some way to objectively quantify the rate of hypocrisy among the population in general and in the population segment that 'talks like that,' the rates would be about the same.
India gained independence largely due to the fact that it was more work than they were worth.
The day the Stormtroopers come knocking at your door, you'll wish you had a gun.
The people can only overthrow a tyrannical government if they have weapons which enable them to do so.
Not if my failing as an organism causes chicks to dig me which causes me not to fail as an organism.
It's all about getting inside the enemy's head, man.
Reality can be very disconcerting when one loses one's illusions and stops believing in fairy tales to keep one's self from crying in the dark in the night.
And we also have to define harm. I consider it far more harmful to hide the world from someone than to actually let them learn that the world is a strange and wondrous place.