Legislatures pass laws. What are laws? They are the limits placed upon each person to have a properly functioning and livable society. Now when these legislatures pass these laws they designate a particular agency to enforce them. For the purposes of this post this writer will group all these enforcement agencies as "the government."
The governments enforces these laws by taking something away from the law breakers. These could be money, property, freedom, even the life of the lawbreaker. In short, governments are designed to take something away from the citizens. If a person asks or demands that the government provide something the government will take something more valuable than it provides. The government will also provide only what THEY THINK YOU NEED, not what you want.
The government also demands the citizens provide a plethora of information. We gladly provide this information. Much of what we do in our lives must be transmitted to the government. We have to register, certify, or license nearly every aspect of our personal lives. Registration and licensing are just permissions to the government to take something away, specifically whatever one registers with them.
For example, take away descriptors of individuals and just say "person." Rather than talking about denying same sex marriage ask, "Who is denying whom from marrying?" The government. How? We are required to be licensed to marry. Denying the license is taking something away from the citizens. Registration acts the same way. Why does the government need to know? Is for statistical purposes? No, it's so the government knows what, where, and how many items they can take when they get the order to do so.
By just cooperating with the government every time they demand you fill out a form, pass a regulation, or the legislature passes new laws, we all lose more of our freedoms. This writer believes the next heroes will be those leaders who can reduce the laws, regulations, and forms that they impose upon the citizenry.
