1. Biden says that this service will give people a common experience and let them know what it is to be "American". What is American about taking your freedoms away and forcing you at the barrel of a gun to serve involuntarily for the government?
2. Why is a Civil Defense Force needed? Don't we have the National Guard and the Coast Guard? This Civil Defense Force looks more like the "Thompson Harmonizer" from Atlas Shrugged
. That weapon was sold as a protector for the country but who's main purpose was to control the people of the US when freedoms were removed.I'm sure you are saying that something like this could never happen. The same people would probably say on Sept 12, 2001 that we would never have a Muslim President with ties to radicals and domestic terrorist and with no proof of US Citizenship leading out great country. Everything happens in increments. Just watch.
I welcome your comments.
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The Eupsychian Party asks: What is the definition of Civil Defense?
If it means making sure that old women don't die at home because of adequate care, then good. Remember "ask what you can do for your country?" Abe Maslow said, "The good society is one in which virtue pays." Well, how does our society produce virtuous people? They follow the orthomentor, which is, in this case, "do unto others...".
If something is "required" it would mean that civil service is required. "You will volunteer for this" is an OK order from someone factually superior or hierarchically dominant. This happens where? In the military.
Where ELSE do we experience non-freedom? In the military, we expect the well-adjusted slave. This is OK if it is time-limited and the master is an aggridant.
One has to ask about the value of the military or quasi-military experience in terms of our culture.
When we had the draft, this gave the people more of a say in how our own were used. Part of bigger
whole, etc.
Ask any military man about what he learned from his "unfair" experience. How much would you pay for a top-level leadership institute? A learning of "solidarity" at the gut level, etc.
I feel like I could go on forever, because one has to use Maslow's "hierarchical integration" to respond to your decision to view servitude to a higher power as
inherently bad. Ask "What would I expect from my family" and if you see the US as something more than a dumping ground for humanity, it becomes--ever so slightly--like family. And wouldn't you want the strongest and most capable in your family to watch out for the elders?
What if Rand was looking at Capitalism as the prison?
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