What for you would be a 'ban' too far?

Question

Never a day passes without the government or some other outfit banning something. Eventually we won't be able to do anything without being fined or imprisoned for something some petty little hitler has decreed we shouldn't do. What would make YOU revolt and take up arms to defend your rights? The other day someone was fined £70 for droping a matchstick on the pavement! What will it take to get you to put a stop to such stupidity?

Answer 1

It would be the straw that broke the camels back, if they banned fishing! That would be the end of cicilization as we know it, i would form a posse of rebel anglers and cast my method feeders, loaded with rock hard groundbait, through the windows of no10. Id form my own govt, and overthrow the pen pushing pillocks that make up our over controlling cabinet, and just for good measure, i would raise the house of lords to the ground, forcing the un-elected plonkers out of their cushy ego manic lifestyles.

Bring on the revolution!!!!

What did you have in mind then?????

Answer 2

That's a good question. It seems, like you say, that everything is being banned, or taken away. We can't send Christmas cards or wear a crucifix, in case we offend someone.
I think what will happen next is some lunatic liberal minded soft soaping retard will ban public holidays. We wont be allowed to have Good Friday and Easter Monday off because it offends those members of the community that are from other religious groups. That would be the time when i personally would kick off big time. Don't be surprised if it doesn't happen real soon. It's becoming a joke and I'm sick of it!

Answer 3

The sad thing is that some people need a cause, any cause, to make themselves feel better or get their name in the paper. It doesn't matter what the cause is or if they really believe in it. We can vote in a whole different group of representatives but the new ones will just come up with different stupidity. People need to realize that there is more then one opinion for every topic and theirs is not always the right one.

Answer 4

This is a fundamental question, so let's crank up the theory warpdrive and ask ourselves a few questions on moral/legal philosophy (my favourite!). Firstly, do we accept that there is a realm of behaviour which is so tied to our personal autonomy, our sancrosanct sense of ourselves as individuals, that it simply cannot be intruded upon by laws? Assuming we do, we must then accept that whenever a law intrudes upon this realm, it has gone too far, which leads us to the more practical aspect of this seminal debate: what are the boundaries of this special realm? To know when we must rise up and claim our right to personal autonomy, we have to be able to draw a relatively bright line for where this realm begins/ends. The latter issue is what has really possessed most thinkers on this matter - Mill used something called, the 'harm principle' to differentiate between other-regarding and purely self-regarding conduct, which results in the latter being protected. One of the melting pots for this normative debate is 'pornography' (ooh, be afraid...). If one can argue that the majority of pornography is purely gratuitous, harmless, self-regarding behaviour, then our right to partake in it (from whatever perspective) is protected - noone must be harmed, that's all, so child porn gets taken out of the equation, obviously.

Now, the issue with dropping matchsticks on pavements and not being allowed to buy chocolate is not as far removed as one thinks. Is this conduct harmful enough to provoke the righteous intervention of the law? If these things are banned, is this just common public morality gone ape with a few statute books?
Of course, I am probably compartmentalising this issue too much, as there are profound issues of how we believe our political system is structured, but basically, one can STILL say that even if (as one contributor notes) we petition our local MP and get the lads at Westminster to change things, does this make whatever they do there ACCEPTABLE? Even if it's on behalf of the majority of constituencies? Surely if there is this 'protected realm' which is free from interference, then not even correctly-constituted majority rule is free to mess with it.

Wow, so that was a mouthful. But where does it leave us? Well, if we truly feel that banning the sale of chocolate is nothing more than malicious interference with our personal autonomy, then it doesn't matter how many voters decided to vote for banning it, we can rebel against such laws. Or, more contemporaneously, if we feel that the camera report about Britons being the most spied upon is correct, then this is a bridge too far with respect to what I can or can't do as I live in society and interact with fellow citizens. In fact, it's much more insidious because it's not an out-and-out ban, it's a subtle form of normativity - once you know you are being watched, you behave differently, you act in a way that you believe is somehow expected by whoever you believe to be watching. For me, this 'non-ban' is where the real danger lies....

Answer 5

good question i think that as you say we will soon be fined for just about any thing i think that if i got a ticket for farting in a public place then thay would for me be the point of no return
if it did ever happen to me i would not pay the fine but go to court and fight ot there but with the hope that i would be sent to prison as this would hope fully make the national news and then maybe others may start to kick against this and maybe it will be the start of getting rid of some of these stupid fines

Answer 6

the answer to your question is unbelievably easy.Depends where
you live, if you live in the u.k.you are entitled to seperate yourself from the present gov, because they are classing themselves as members of the E,U, All you have to do is class yourself as a non e.u.and become a free englishmen, scotsmen or welshmen.Thats a legal state to be in, but you would be persecuted for it illegaly by the gov, as i have been foryears and years, but thats only because i am one man if i were a member of a large party that felt the same way it would be all over and we would win, but there isent one.

Answer 7

"the wheelie bin" i hear from a good source that in the near future they are going to monitor how much waste our households make per week and charge us accordingly?????

Answer 8

i just red a question saying to ban fireworks
like omg god lighten up, life is to be enjoyed and if setting off fireworks is the way then so be it

ppl are so boring some times

Answer 9

what we have to remember is we vote these people in, lobby your Mp, they are their because we put them there!!
I know some people vote for the less of the ...however many evils... but some people dont even vote....VOTE get yourself out there and make your voice heard.

Answer 10

The day they outlaw chocolate, I'm putting together my own insurrection.