Comment on Think of the children
Dissasterix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Government allows questionable laws to exist on the books Government spends money in misguided places More government will make it better.
There’s a Thomas Sowell book called ‘Conflict of Visions,’ its pretty neat. Ultimately he breaks Left/Right into two philosophies: The Anointed believe everything can be solved with infinte money, and the Blighted believe that some problems are inherintly hard and cannot be solved without an impossible level of force. Basically P vs NP but with people.
I dont think giving more money to the government will save the world. Tax revenue is up, government spending is up-- but the problems persist… Then consider that an endless national debt may destroy the economic enviroment of today’s children as they grow up. I dont know about you but this ‘9% transitory inflationy’ has cut my buying power nearly in half!
The only answer provided ever is give the government more money/power. Its pretty silly. No thanks. They’ll just use to pedal soft-power to sketchy Eastern blok nations again, lol. Uncongressional wars for two decades. Create a spying apparatus that makes Stalin blush… Its a joke.
irmoz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Are you joking? Did you even read the article?
It talks about child marriage, child labour and forced birth. None of these problems in particular require money, just laws to be passed.
Dissasterix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, ‘Think of the children’ is a meme :p
Laws are written by government lawyers. Laws are revoked and rescinded by government workers. These laws still exist. Unpopular laws still exist… In many States a law can be petitioned into existence-- to get broken and watered down in beaureocratic double-speak. Worse, laws dont just go away, they’re written over. Wherein §512.765 still reffrences the ‘removed’ §218.231(A)(2) verbiage. Its a clusterfuck.
Do you really think more taxes/government will end the ageless problem of shit parenting and poor parents?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How about… Not electing government officials that are OK with child marriage?
Dissasterix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For it! No force or taxes required
irmoz@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I think you meant to a reply that asked for higher taxes or more government power, because that wasn’t what mine said.
Also, i am quite happy letting the government have the “power” to stop child labour and child marriage. If that’s an overstep in your book, then i don’t like your book. What seems an overstep in government power to me is regulating what people can do with their own bodies. Why isn’t that offensive to you?
Dissasterix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The implication of all left/right ultimately boils down to taxes/force. I dont like force or taxes. This extends to bodily rights. However if you mean abortions issues, there is a true coin-flip on who’s body gets priority. (The solution is to not regulate it so that people that want it can do it and people who dont dont have to fund it. No force, no taxes. Consistency).