Recently, Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown (D-KKKalifornia) signed a bill making it no longer a felony to knowingly infect someone with HIV [1].
Whatever happened to government being the defender of our lives, liberties, properties and pursuits of happiness[2]?
Instead, government is becoming more and more a plunderer and pillager of that which it’s supposed to protect[3].
What particularly irks me about this is that there are some who call themselves “libertarians” who prefer to let the State (in this case, Moonbeam Brown) not only define their ethics and morality, but then insist that they’re the ones abiding by the Zero Aggression Principle —
I guess this is what you get when you lower your standards and insist that “everyone is a Libertarian, they just don’t know it yet.”
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
- Los Angeles Times — Knowingly exposing others to HIV will no longer be a felony in California by Patrick McGreevy
CNN — California lowers penalty for knowingly exposing partners to HIV by Alaa Elassar and Laura Diaz-Zuniga
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat
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