Conservatives don't really have that option. Most of us just want to be left alone and have as little gov't interference in our lives as possible. I don't want Republicans passing bills, unless it's to undo the damage caused by Democrats, which never seems to happen. Unfortunately, the current situation is Democrats want to increase the gov't by X, and Republicans only want to increase it by 0.5X. Rarely do I ever hear politicians that want to shrink the gov't.
Frame it how you like but the reality is that the law is as much a bludgeon against us as it is against our enemies. All laws carry unintended consequences and we shouldn't be too eager to legislate the destruction of our foes for the precedent we set may destroy us equally as well. Better to enforce the laws that already exist than to make new ones.
All laws have unintended consequences. That doesn't make all laws bad. It does make law as a concept worthy of trepidation and the process of legislation worthy of skepticism and restraint. Don't pass the laws today that they'll use to hang your children.
Or are you a fan of expansive bureacracies with endless laws that can be invoked and twisted to deal with you as needed?
My concern is that certain people, even those who I would otherwise count as fellow patriots, would pass any law so long as it hurt the insurrectionists without giving due consideration to the implications.
Your analysis of human systems is essentially perfect. They are flawed and open to hijacking by bad actors and the remedies are themselves flawed in the same way. As you say, legislation must concern itself with the misappropriation of law for sinister ends by bad actors. But, as the downvotes on my original comment demonstrate, such a guarded respect of the law is less popular than merely using the law to smash your foes without regard for the consequences.
This would be anti first amendment. People have the right to say all kinds of stupid shit.
Not necessarily. We already have laws against using speech maliciously (terroristic threats, etc). What if we were to nuke their "cancel culture" by making it federally some sort of criminal harassment to try to get someone fired if you've never been a customer of whoever they work for?
Use subpoenas to force HR departments to reveal the SJWs (phone numbers, email addresses, whatever contact info you can get) making complaints about someone's Facebook posts or whatever, if they're halfway across the country and have never had any business with your employer before, they go to prison/are held liable for your lost wages.
Conservatives don't really have that option. Most of us just want to be left alone and have as little gov't interference in our lives as possible. I don't want Republicans passing bills, unless it's to undo the damage caused by Democrats, which never seems to happen. Unfortunately, the current situation is Democrats want to increase the gov't by X, and Republicans only want to increase it by 0.5X. Rarely do I ever hear politicians that want to shrink the gov't.
This is the way. No more always being on the defense.
True.
Frame it how you like but the reality is that the law is as much a bludgeon against us as it is against our enemies. All laws carry unintended consequences and we shouldn't be too eager to legislate the destruction of our foes for the precedent we set may destroy us equally as well. Better to enforce the laws that already exist than to make new ones.
Yeah the constitution just hurts us bro, all laws are bad
Sounds like anarchoCommie bullshit to me
All laws have unintended consequences. That doesn't make all laws bad. It does make law as a concept worthy of trepidation and the process of legislation worthy of skepticism and restraint. Don't pass the laws today that they'll use to hang your children.
Or are you a fan of expansive bureacracies with endless laws that can be invoked and twisted to deal with you as needed?
My concern is that certain people, even those who I would otherwise count as fellow patriots, would pass any law so long as it hurt the insurrectionists without giving due consideration to the implications.
Your analysis of human systems is essentially perfect. They are flawed and open to hijacking by bad actors and the remedies are themselves flawed in the same way. As you say, legislation must concern itself with the misappropriation of law for sinister ends by bad actors. But, as the downvotes on my original comment demonstrate, such a guarded respect of the law is less popular than merely using the law to smash your foes without regard for the consequences.
This is just stupid. Masks have an impact. I have done the modeling myself just based upon the friction of the mask your plume is much smaller.
This would be anti first amendment. People have the right to say all kinds of stupid shit.
Not necessarily. We already have laws against using speech maliciously (terroristic threats, etc). What if we were to nuke their "cancel culture" by making it federally some sort of criminal harassment to try to get someone fired if you've never been a customer of whoever they work for?
Use subpoenas to force HR departments to reveal the SJWs (phone numbers, email addresses, whatever contact info you can get) making complaints about someone's Facebook posts or whatever, if they're halfway across the country and have never had any business with your employer before, they go to prison/are held liable for your lost wages.