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Robert,
As far as I am concerned you may: take any drug you please, negotiate any
contract with anyone you please (including any "broker", prostitute,
"doctor", investment advisor, or anyone else). I do not accept the validity
of any of these regulations. So I think you'll find the position of
advocates of freedom consistent on this issue: We do not accept the
validity of ANY regulation save one: you may not initiate the use of
physical force nor commit fraud against another. That's it!
Governments were instituted among men to *protect our freedom*, not to
regulate us.
Again I say: You have no right to regulate me. If you choose to regulate
me, see yourself for what you are: a man standing behind the barrel of a
gun. For nothing short of that will bring my compliance.
All the best,
Trader J
Previously, Robert Wrote:
Exactly but in a perfect world, what about the cancer patient dying who can
not have the latest drug because it has not yet been proven safe. Why
indeed license the good doctor monitor his prescriptions uses ? Why make a
futures broker time stamp each an every order four times and keep it six
years? Why does every advertisement a securities broker run have to be
approved for content by the SEC then filed and kept for six years? Why is
it all these professions can't be practice with a felony conviction? If I
agree with you then why me and not you by what standard of justice are you
using with all of us in the above. Why in the above professions are we
presumed guilty until we prove our innocence from documentation. Why is it
that a car repair establishment can fix my cars with a mechanic who is on
commissions that has a felony conviction for thief not have to be licensed
and prove his findings. Why can't I have a prostitute, smoke marijuana, do
heroin and then if I get sick terminal cancer commit suicide. If it were
your job to protect the publics interest in the above what would you tell
them be careful let the user beware. Is it that people who only write
software that are exempt here. Is it that regulations apply just for the
ones who perform a service for the public that have to be regulated that
handle health and money. If I agree again I say why you not me, why? Where
does a good intentioned government draw the line in protecting its citizens
you decide. You say you have no right then I say you have no right to
regulate me either then we both have to go back and live in this imperfect
world. Like I said its a complex issue. Its hard for me not to be a
hypocrite here it really is.
Robert
>By what right, by what moral code, by what standard of justice, do you
>presume to regulate my freedom to act? The public good? Who is the
public?
>Everyone but me?
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>Why do you point your gun at me? It's not a gun, you say? You are not
>*forcing* me to do anything? Fine. Then accept my refusal to comply with
>your regulations, which I do not recognize.
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>I suggest that you re-read Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". Particularly Part II,
>Chapter IV, "The Sanction of the Victim". You are making the very common
>mistake of separating ends from context and means. There is no cause that
>can make it right to sacrifice a man.
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>All the best,
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>Trader J
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