Clarification

Maybe I wasn’t so clear with my sarcasm; I wrote it in twenty minutes around ten o’clock at night while waiting for something else to happen. Thus, it was rushed. And I don’t really feel like re-reading it, so I’ll just sum up what I was trying to say —

I believe in government seat belt laws, because the Law (big L, referring to all law established by the US Government) is designed to protect the people, or at least should be, and there really isn’t any difference between this and the law prohibiting murder. It is done in the interests of keeping its (the government’s) citizens alive and healthy.

From a libertarian (small l, regarding not the political party’s views but the basic tenets of what that idea means) perspective (which I am somewhat sympathetic to, but not in total agreement with because of what such principles lead to), there is no difference between what I do to myself and what I do to others. It is still my own action, and therefore should not be interfered with. Now, maybe that’s not what you believe, but that’s what’s at the core of that kind of philosophy, and I think libertarianism is A) prideful, B) rebellious, and C) against religion. As such, I do not conform to such “ideals.”

-SALVARE