The Darwin awards are based on the concept that humans left to individual choices would restrict population growth through natural selection. Stated differently, the tragedy of the commons should be allowed to happen. People acting in their own individual best interests with no government restrictions would kill enough of themselves and others to again achieve natural selection.
When the girl is injured by a faulty rope bungee jumping – everyone says she was stupid; no one said the government didn’t complete an inspection. The Centralia Mine Disaster was the employees fault for working there; not the corporations fault for ignoring safety requirements. The people who lived in Chernobyl during the nuclear accident deserve what they got for accepting those jobs; not the industries fault in design and safety responses. The people who live along the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers are at fault for all the PCBs in the rivers, not the paper companies. Those kids that became sick from playing in the Love Canal were stupid; not the corporations that dumped the chemicals there. Legalizing all drugs will solve the crime problem and kill lots of stupid people.
“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”
― Ron Paul
Ron Paul is an is off by about 180 degrees and he should soon be meeting some coming from the other direction..
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