Laws affect nothing, people that want to commit crimes break the laws to do so
Can we take a moment to imagine a world without laws? What are your first thoughts? Murder? Thievery? Monopolies? Why is the first place we think of is crime?
Fear tactics, fear is used to create laws, meaning the law will not be respected, as cooperation built out of fear only creates followers as long as the fear lasts. Look at gun control, common debate points are, "If we don't ban all weapons, our children will continue to die". (When perhaps the people dying would not have died if they had been armed and capable of defending them self) But laws prevent that from happening, gun laws prevent people from using self defense, if the law were honest, it wouldn't say "preventing criminals from obtaining guns", when they're criminals. They wont obey the laws. If the laws were honest, they would say what they really do. "This gun ban law will remove guns from all who legally obtained a gun through the state verification process as they are listed in the state, criminals will keep their guns as their weapons are not registered with the state". Laws restrict those only living according to the law. Meaning those obeying the law have less rights than criminals. Laws restrict forms of self defense, you are allowed to defend your self if defense is on your property, within your home, if you have taken a significant amount of physical damage, if threats were made against you, if you do not use a firearm, if you hit the attacker only while he face you, if he broke into your home, if there are witnesses that see the fight based in your favor, and if the court agrees with your stance against the criminal. If those are met, you are then allowed to defend yourself, where if you don't obey the law, if you're being attacked, you defend yourself, its that simple. Looks like the criminals have more freedoms than citizens abiding by the law.
Now, what happens if someone in power becomes corrupt? They now not only have all the power, they can create corrupt laws that law biding citizens must follow. Look at the laws Hitler passed. It was illegal to hide or assist Jews. Or that blacks may not get an education. The idea of having corrupt laws passed is one of my biggest fears, I live according to the law and obey it, making bad laws forces individuals to break the law and become criminals. If an unjust law were set by a corrupt official, presented it as moral and mislead the majority to fall for it, we then have corrupt laws that punish those who once followed the law. Its far too easy to get caught with your pants down by stupid meaningless laws that do nothing but complicate things, raise the states income by catching someone standing in the wrong place, (which is real and called loitering) drinking unprocessed milk that you got from your cow on your farm is illegal, drinking a beer in the doorway of a bar is legal, lean one inch out and its public intoxication, hey in some states its illegal to create a user ID with a fake name and email! But you would never know, no one looks up their states laws every month to make sure article C of subsection 74-1 hasn't been modified to make an every day act illegal.
This leads me to question the true nature of laws, with each years brings only more laws, more restrictions and more regulation ON PEOPLE, these laws do not affect those putting them in place. Why would we need so many unnecessary laws that are so small such as standing, to big laws that allow the state to define how someone may defend them self? Killing someone has over 20 versions. That's wrong, killing someone outside of self defense is murder. But we place some murder above other, was it pre meditated? Or in cold blood? Did he know the person? Or was he a stranger? There is so much wrong with classifying some killing to be not as bad as other ways. "Well he killed that guy, but in cold blood, lets lighten his punishment", no, that doesn't make sense. To kill someone is to kill someone. But maybe its because I believe that hypocrisy is bad, and that corruption should be avoided.
While bringing up hypocrisy, laws ironically created the black market. Let me tell you what the black market is. It is true capitalism, real free markets, and zero regulations.
- Lets start with capitalism, you make money in a transaction, you keep it. Well that seems fair. Competition that lets more than one company enter the fold at making money. Meaning even you communists will get a kick out of this, as by government not taxing the mom and pop stores land, lights, power, water, sales, permits and income, there would be Wal-Marts, and mom and pop stores, because everyone is welcome in it. Meaning everyone gets an equal shot. What we see in America is NOT capitalism, its a disgusting nearly unrecognizable form of it, where the government helps only the largest companies. Meaning no one gets an equal shot.
-Now, onto real free markets. The black market is run on trade and supply and demand. Meaning if someone needs something, someone will see that need, meet it by providing said service, and will then make money. Making all involved better off. The seller wants money, so he makes something someone wants, that someone has money he wants to give for what the seller has, they make a voluntary trade, both parties win, its simple and beautiful! Also, if someone steals something, the seller will warn the other sellers to avoid that potential threat. Discouraging acting unlawful without placing any laws! And no, this can not be abused as they will have a database of transactions to check and see if its true or not. If a business wont pay a wage that seems fair, his workers may leave and find work ANYWHERE, as the government does not hold them back with paperwork and permits, the business will either allow work for the poor which will pay homeless to work, then giving them the money they need, allow kids to get jobs (if they want) and make money for that new Xbox coming out, while teaching them a lesson in responsibility, will force the business to pay more by lack of production, or even further use free markets by finding someone selling a service to help his! Which creates endless jobs, endless jobs! No government bureaucracy preventing all new comers. Not to mention the third party system that will track transactions like Bitcoin does, which will quickly show who is trust worthy and who isn't, thus losing their customers and naturally shutting down corrupt work places, and because it isn't of centralized origin, each place will have their own list to further prevent hacking.
-Here we go, regulations..."Well, they aren't great, but we need them!" No we don't... We need common sense laws like the NAP. Pollution? That's against human rights, no go. Slave labor? That's against human rights, no go. Monopoly? That's against human rights, no go. Buying out a business and forcing them to close? Not voluntary? Against human rights, no go. Forcing someone to buy your product? Not voluntary? Against human rights, no go. False claims to ownership or copyright infringement? Lying is an immoral act. Against human rights, no go. See? The world naturally takes care of itself with very basic laws that promote individual human rights. The black market is FLOURISHING ALL THE TIME. Why? No laws, no regulation, no government.
The more I study politics, the more I find myself agreeing with anarchists. "Oh they want no cops", no, it allows the free market to create jobs for private security firms that will make police and create jobs. "I don't like the idea of privatized cops, its just some guys with guns that stop crime", what makes regular cops any different? Nothing. Anarchism seems to be true freedom, true equal justice, and true forward progression for a society. The idea of giving one man power to run a country, and the strength of a military is utopian. "Anarchy will have people killing each other in the streets" why? Whats stopping them now? If you haven't noticed, laws are broken every day, if someone wants to commit a crime they are going to. A law will not stop them. And lets be completely honest, in this modern society, where every person in America understands the basic fundamentals of the concept to not hurt someone, why would a soccer mom begin killing toddlers with a baseball bat because there is no law telling her not to? She knows that killing will result in her own death, or loss of freedom and rights. If a criminal wanted to kill someone, do you think he would not kill them because the law? If that's true, why do people still kill? They break the law, the law does not stop criminals, it removes the human right to self defense and freedoms. What stops criminals is them knowing that they may be hurt, punished or killed, the only way to do that is to let people defend themselves in the same way as the police protect the president, the most efficient way, with a gun. Otherwise we are declaring that some human life is better than others. Laws are simply used to better control people, why can't we place laws over the government? In the free market, its immoral for a company to force you to buy their product, where government is allowed to force you, what if Wal-Mart forced you to buy their product? Not to mention that makes it impossible to gain truthful statistics. Saying government run anything is or can be successful is a lie. You cannot say a business is doing well if it forces everyone to buy from it or they will arrest them. Those are false statistics, show me a voluntary based government, then tell me your stats, until then, quit waving your Canada in my face. The wait times there are so horrendous people die waiting. People go in because their arm fell asleep, if you can see a doctor for anything, every hypochondriac would be wasting time seeing them for an eyelash in their eye while they force 300 people to wait for their arthritis to be checked. Forced participation is not participation. The government uses force because without forced participation, it would cease to exist, meaning it is not needed. The government needs people to survive. People do not need government to survive. That is a fact.
I'm not an anarchist yet... But I do believe in a zero government controlled economy, "anarcho-capitalism". Now remember. If it isn't voluntary, its force, if its force, its immoral, and if you agree with immoral actions, I then have the right to break your nose, as immoral actions are acceptable to you.
The government needs people to survive. People do not need a government to survive.
Live free.
-Ryan
