At Think Daily, I hope to encourage people to think. Personal development is my specialty, but occasionally I will ask societal questions too, and encourage comments. Of course, in doing so I can excite the common narratives around both sides of an issue. I do not want Think Daily to be a place for political discourse, just to bring some aspect of question or thought into an issue.
When posing the idea that we can break a law by doing nothing, there were plenty of comments. I knew there were some examples that I didn’t think of that people wrote in the comments.
For example jury duty, or registering for the draft. Paying taxes or having car insurance is not one because you only have to do those things IF you make money or drive. I believe with the affordable care act you must have health insurance or face a penalty, but I am not an expert in such policies as I take little time to pay attention to them all.
Most laws are to prevent you from doing something wrong, which was my indirect point. Only a tiny fraction would have you run afoul of the law by doing absolutely nothing at all.
There was a lot of people commenting about the COVID vaccine. While I will not get into that because I love you all and have nothing to gain by doing so, we can see that over the course of history terrible diseases have plagued populations, and vaccines have saved countless lives. They may have even saved mine, but we don’t know about what didn’t happen to us.
We all must balance the benefits of freedom with the benefits of a responsive government.
Can you see both?
We must apply the correct philosophy in our thinking for various issues.
I agree that we should not be so legislated that we break the law by doing nothing, including jury duty and registering for the draft. I am not convinced that either one should be mandatory. Perhaps we could experiment with 6 jurors as is the custom in some other countries, so fewer would need to serve. Also, I don’t believe forcing people to fight for our country is right. We should use incentives, if and when the time comes. My point was that I believe we already have a questionable law or two. As you said, good laws prevent us from doing wrong. Just my thoughts.
good comments today
I am a new JunkLugger and have been reading your daily wisdom without fail. I am a republican. I’m prefacing what I’m going to say with it since you will understand. I feel everyone had right to choose to whether to get vaccine or not. But if we don’t get it we should be liable to pay for Damages to others or self if we don’t get it like car insurance. If we make this into a law lot of folks who aren’t getting vaccine will immediately get it. It’s just sad to see that we have lost more folks to this pandemic than the 1918 epidemic even after all the scientific advances. Just makes me sad. Anyways, thank you sir and have a wonderful weekend.
Regards,
Raj
Thank you for encouraging civil discussion between intelligent adults. Keep the daily messages coming!
Right on brother!!
Thanks for keeping us all on our best behavior politically correct or not!
Peace out! Using less fossil fuels reduces global warming / climate change!
Go Captain Kirk!
Mike Omasta
Bill Busters Inc
As always, I appreciate your insight and intelligent angle! I also appreciate that we all are part of this great network and we can talk things through with calmness. I’m my case, I really on my body and mind telling me what to do. I will do what’s best for me. That may mean I may not agree with decisions that our government makes for me. After all, they are human beings and have been proven many times to make mistakes too! Men and women learn from each other, it’s what we do in this world !
Larry I think we also need to think about balancing personal freedoms with community responsibilities. For example we put limits on freedom of speech by limiting limiting falsely yelling fire in a crowed theater….. or limiting our rights to bear arms to not include heat seeking missile launchers….nether individual rights nor community responsibilities can or should be absolute