Originally Posted by Fireball
Camaro5 members come here to learn about the 5th generation Camaro rather than political philosophy. However, if they do not understand the basics of political philosophy or if they advocate an improper political philosophy, until people rediscover a rational political philosophy.
Yet today the government has moved far beyond its proper protective function. Rather than protecting citizens from force & fraud, the government attempts to do all things for all people: provide housing, food, jobs, pensions, education, health, mail, libraries, roads -- really everything.
But when a government goes beyond its proper role as protector against initiatory force and fraud, it necessarily initiates force and coercive threats against citizens. Why? Because the government itself is not productive, so it must target the productive members of society, confiscate their earned wealth, and redistribute this to favored members of society.
At that point anything goes. If a certain segment of society doesn't like big, powerful cars, they lobby government to end production of those cars. The reasons are endless: global cooling, global warming, ozone depletion, protecting polar bears, saving whales -- whatever the duped public will accept.
The bottom line is a 6-pack GTO or a Daytona Charger or a ZL1 Corvette could never arise from a collectivist society. Only a society that honors & protects individual rights can give birth to a GTO, Charger & Corvette because the voluntary interaction among citizens makes this possible.
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