These are the major points that have been made to justify making the white list illegal.
[b:5tshsjaj]One bumps into them when flying.[/b:5tshsjaj] Then go higher -- I tried it and no problem. And if you bump into one, you are not injured in any way and lose no clothing. I tried this to make sure, and didn't even bruise my nose.
[b:5tshsjaj]In the RW, you can't restrict air flights over your property[/b:5tshsjaj]. No, but the Government does. Planes cannot fly at a very low altitude over your property. The courts have been inconsistent on this, but the prevailing view is that there is a lower zone above one's property one owns and cannot be trespassed by airplanes.
[b:5tshsjaj]What's your problem--these are only electrons, and all imaginary?[/b:5tshsjaj] Try downloading and selling on your website photos and articles off the net. These are copyrighted and one has no right to them, although they are only electrons. One can be sued in a real court and may have to give up real money.
[b:5tshsjaj]You can be spied on anyway by anyone knowing how to use the camera, listening in to your chat, or using spy gadgets.[/b:5tshsjaj] I know nothing about this, but so much for my 107 sex balls and nightly orgies. In RW, one can be spied on no less by people peeking into one's windows, listening out side of them, or using the spy equipment one can buy. Does that mean you leave your house doors unlocked?
[b:5tshsjaj]Community needs take precedence over a person's freedom[/b:5tshsjaj]. This is a pervasive and freedom subverting belief, widely applied by many otherwise democratic communities. I live in one in RW, a gateway community, and the limitations on my freedom are according to a community contract I signed with my eyes open when I bought a home in it. But what about when one lives in a community in which the rules are imposed, even democratically? This bears some analysis.
The idea that a community has a right to impose on one's freedom is a misunderstanding of what a community is. It is nothing more than a group of people who identify themselves as sharing some identity. Such is NFS and CN. Such a community develops an implicit and explicit social contract involving what people can and cannot do, and who owns or controls what. This contract has four sources.
One is the rules one accepts when joining the community.
A second is what people actually do, want, and value, and from which evolves the norms, mores, and values of the community -- its culture.
A third is the just rules (general laws) of the community that governs who can do what to whom, when, and how, and that evolve out of individual behavior.
And a fourth is a government's rules and laws that are passed by an authoritative executive or legislative organ of the community. In the first three cases, the community is not some abstract being standing above the individual members of the community, but an evolving and natural outcome of the individuals who compose it. That means that the community is an integral reflection of individual behavior and values (if you have difficulty with this, think of small towns or villages). Legislative rules or laws may simply be a codification of this evolving social contract and justified as traditional.
But in modern times, the government has been used to impose on a community ideas as to how people ought to behave, what is right and wrong. These laws or rules constrain or control individuals according to the values of some powerful person, or group. It is in effect, government using the idea of a community to demand that individuals give up certain freedoms over and above the social contract that has evolved.
Although I'm convinced that there are no fascists among us, and all is meant in a democratic way, this view of the right of a government to override liberty, culture, and tradition by imposing laws and rules is at the root of fascism. So we get some governments that say freedom must give way to the right of the nation to develop, be strong, purify itself, recover ancient glory, do God's will, meet a foreign threat, etc. Or in our case, make the community look attractive and inviting, and to ease flight.
