The following is a 8 message exchange between 5 users
@ISIDEWITH2mos2MO
Do you think the government should have the power to predict and punish future speech crimes?
@9KWXVNJ2mos2MO
No, because that's taking away the first amendment
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
Canada doesn't have the first amendment. But it is taking away our God-given right to Liberty.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
With Canada’s laws like this, I agree strongly, they’re getting crazy sometimes.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
You mean you actually agree that we should have the right to say what we want?! You've got a little bit of a pulse.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
Believe it or not, I’m not an anti-liberty tankie, my focuses just remain more on freedom FROM certain things, rather than freedom to DO certain things. We call freedom FROM a “negative freedom”, and a freedom TO a “positive freedom”. My heavier focus is on the freedom FROM, alongside the freedom TO for things ljke material assurances in life, since I believe in a life built upon the principle of destroying as many negative aspects of life as possible. Canada doesn’t do that, it attacks the positive freedoms in the wrong way, assuming that it’s somehow helping the negative ones when all it creates is discourse and further negative reaction that drastically outweighs the most minute impact it may possess.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
I just believe in freedom FROM theft of all sorts (which includes taxation) and freedom FROM enslavement and freedom FROM murder, which is where I get property, liberty, and life as the basic rights.
@9CJ6CB62mos2MO
Oh boy, just a slight change in philosophical worldview and we’d literally be friends. That’s quite literally what I’m against, but you don’t address the greater theft and the greater deprivation of life here: surplus value theft and wage slavery. Surplus value theft is far greater, at the very least, halving your wages and deciding what you even GET in the first place. You give, as an example, 200 dollars in revenue when working at a company. The capitalist steals 100 dollars to keep the company going and continue the cycle of stealing, stuffing his pocket along the… Read more
