Lets keep this in context. If I get sick, I hold NO ONE LIABLE FOR IT, period. I took the risk, period. Case closed.
This has nothing to do with a off grid home. I am not responsible for anyone getting sick. If they get sick, its on them.
No, its not exactly like that at all. And this distracts from the issue. The drunk driver knows he's drunk. In the case of a asymptomatic person, they dont know, plus the others can take precautions. So its more like a person on the road who is not drunk, but goes over the speed limit, like most everyone else does, and that fearfull person can take precautions and avoid them or just stay off the road and live in there little bubble. But again, using illustrations isn't addressing the issues of this subject.
Drunk drivers don't always know that they're drunk. Someone can be legally drunk and not show symptoms. The point is that there are rules we all follow regardless of symptoms because we have to have some responsibility for how we affect others. The person who prepares your food in a restaurant or in the store you buy it from has to follow certain standards like hand-washing even if they think their hands are clean and they show no symptoms of being sick. You wouldn't hold the person who prepared your food liable if they prepared it after going to the bathroom and not washing their hands? Somehow I can't believe that. That's why public health standards and regulations exist. There needs to be reasonable expectations of how people behave when they are interacting with other people. The blame shouldn't go on the victim of someone else's negligence.
Sorry but I dont live with these OTHER people. I'm on the same planet as they are, but I dont live with them and I'm not responsible for them.
Unless you're living off the grid then you absolutely do "live with these OTHER people". They have certain responsibilities in regards to your safety and you have certain responsibilities in regards to their safety. You can claim your denial of this all you like but it's a fact and it's reality.
The benefits are from a free market of peoples services and products. And some of those people are diverse in there views, even on this. What it sounds like your saying is with the government comes benefits and therefore I'm responsible to there tyranny to keep getting these benefits. Well again, sorry, but NO IM NOT responsible to bow to there tyranny. And our benefits dont come from them, in fact THEY usually destroy those benefits even to themselves because tyranny is stupid.
I didn't say "government", I said "society". With a society comes benefits AND responsibilities. You're responsible to the society from which you benefit.
I don't know where you're getting 'tyranny' from, nobody brought up tyranny. If you perceive responsibility as tyranny then go live where there is no society, out in the wilderness, off the grid. It's that simple. If you want to participate in society on any level then you must have responsibility towards that society in exchange for the benefits you receive from that society. If all you want is power from the grid, then that's fine, but you have a responsibility to compensate the society that is providing you power by paying that company. If you want to do business with the society and the members of that society then you have to take on the responsibility of living with the people you're doing business with in that society.
But I can tell from your use of the word 'tyranny' that you don't understand the word. There are Christians in this world who live under REAL tyranny, who are persecuted and killed for their faith. Calling mere social responsibility 'tyranny' is an affront to the experience of real Christians around the world.
Actually I'm not the one imposing my ideas on you, its all you imposing yours on me.
No, you actually are imposing your ideology on me and everyone in society.
I'm not telling you to NOT wear a mask or not socially distance am I? No im not. I would recommend you not but I'm not imposing my idea on you if you fear this virus and if you believe the precautions work then go right ahead, fill your boots. But its YOU thats doing the impossing.
You are telling the society in which you choose to live that they have no right to maintain their public safety and health standards. You could make the same argument about seat belts, that you are not asking anyone to wear a seat belt and that it's 'tyranny' for society to tell you you have to wear a seat belt. Of course, that would be just as wrong. Society (and the government that governs it) does well to defend the rights of its members. That's what wearing seat belts or masks (or shirts or shoes) does for the individuals in a society.
Now, if you really took responsibility for yourself only you would simply leave such a society and go live where you can deal with little or none of these rules and regulations. You can homestead in the wilderness, off the grid, and never have to do anything. But as long as there are people around you in any aspect of your life then you have a responsibility towards them just as they have responsibilities towards you. The whole reason you "own" anything at all in your life is because society makes it happen. Society says that property and land ownership are your right. Society enforces your rights by providing police and courts so that you can protect your ownership rights. If not, then you'd be left to defend your property and with certainty someone bigger and stronger than you would come along and take everything you have. Maybe make you his vassal or serf. What prevents that is society.
Tyranny can come from government and sometimes it comes also from the mob majority. Either way the imposors are the tyrants. Thats a FACT. The world needs to live and let live.
That's not a fact, that's a lie. Tyranny is not government. Government is instituted by God. Romans 13 explains it clearly - I don't know if you believe God's Word on this but here's what God says in His Holy Word:
Romans 13
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Now, if you can show me Biblically how earthly government is "tyranny" for enforcing God's justice then please feel free. From what I see, earthly government is not "tyranny" but rather God's ordained ministers unto His Justice and rebellion against them brings damnation upon the rebel.
