Message from @Drywa11
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Obviously if you kill someone and are arrested then your right to arms and liberty are temporarily forfeit
Ok, so you mean context
Laws must address the context of you having infringed on someone else's freedom
If someone commits a crime they are not allowed to just walk away in the name of freedom and liberty
Ok, right
They can obviously be detained and their freedom can be temporarily ended
And this is where the problem starts, because obviously it means that an investigation must happen before it can be determined who was in the right and who wasn't
And that investigation is the part that gets corrupted
There could of course be some problems in a justice system
But i think that it would be worth it for the sake of freedom and it can work on a basic level for resolving disputes between two sane parties
Uhm
That part would be for the sake of justice and order, not freedom
You obviously need some level of order infringing on freedom to maintain a functional society
Right
So who watches that?
Who watches those with the power to infringe on freedom?
Elected officials
But they're one and the same, aren't they?
I see your point
We could just have a constitution of how freedoms can be forfeited from an individual and if the government ignores it then civil unrest could resolve it since they would be facing an armed populace
Yeah basically
The elected don't really have an incentive to handicap themselves
Someone else must do it
The people would have to enforce it if the government breaks those rules @Drywa11
who watches the watchers?
the watched
But what if those rules weren't installed in the first place?
Who installs it, and how?
Well in current society we could simply have a slow reform to it
I don't know, it doesn't seem to be happening
Reduced Laws and reduced government power, Increased Personal freedom can all be introduced overtime
Doing it all within a matter of days would of course not work
I'm actually concerned it will never happen if slow reform is the only valid option
Well it would be the only proper way
Why?
Imagine what would happen in the US if the government want from managing many things to just maintaining law and order
If the elected infringe on the rules, don't we have the right to stop them using force?
Yes
Civil unrest from an armed populace would prevent the officials from breaking the rules of the constitution
If public opinion is the only thing ultimately protecting against tyranny, then wouldn’t it be easier to limit a firm/individual than a government that is given the legitimacy to do things others aren’t allowed to?
So if the rules that would allow a civil uprising in case of rulebreaking don't exist yet, but we want them to exist, then we can't rise with force because the rules aren't in place yet, etc... it's a perpetual cycle