I wouldn't trust anybody that doesn't "hate" Trump and his crime spree. It's a reliable litmus test of values for those who know what he is, and of intelligence in those who don't.
Bible doesn't say it is ok to beat slaves.
The Bible instructs slavers on the acceptable limits for beating slaves. You can beat them as much as you like without punishment if it doesn't kill them within a day or two. Are you proud to be defending such a religion?
I believe all necessary and useful things would be done.
Doesn't matter that you believe that. We know that that is wrong. No country without an effective system of taxation can provide its citizens with good roads, public schools, police and fire departments, produce inspection, enforced environmental protections, a military better than the colonials could muster, and the like. There are countries like that. You wouldn't like living in them as much as you do a Western social democracy. I'll bet that if you moved to Chad or Cameroon, the taxes would be quite low. Of course, with little infrastructure, you'd be living a primitive life with frequent power failures if you have power. If you want better, then your neighbors INSIST you help pay the cost. It's not an option if you choose to walk the streets and enjoy the benefit of the taxes others pay. Like I said, for such people there are a few options: emigrate, go to prison for tax evasion, or shed this mortal coil - but enjoying Sunday in Central Park won't be one of them.
Why do you think we have private companies that don't need to be forced by government?
We have them because the people who own them are profiting from them. That's their agenda, not the public's well-being.
If I don't work, I don't eat. So, to live, I am forced to work. And greedy government sees that as a good opportunity to steal part of it from me.
And if you want to live in a modern, liberal, secular, democratic state and partake of its amenities, you'll need to work as well if you don't already have money, and even then, you'll pay taxes.
I care of other people, that is why I am against them being held as slaves with mandatory taxation.
You are living in a dream. I worked for decades and was taxed every year. I was far from a slave. We traveled the world in those years. I bought nice cars and houses, and filled them with art. We went to restaurants every night for many years.
And the people living the life you call slavery - subsistence wages with little savings or credit - aren't there because of taxes. They're people who are unmotivated to work, or spend recklessly, or who bring little to the marketplace but their backs and the ability to follow simple instructions like at a cash register.
When the problem is in the morality of people, it can't be fixed by government. It could be fixed if people would learn to live as Jesus taught.
We can do better than that. The morality of many people in America is the result of their Christian heritage as we're seeing with the theocratic rescinding of reproductive rights, the assault on LGBTQ+, and the assault on same-sex marriage and contraception. Humanists consider all of that immoral.
I think best solution for pollution is that people just don't buy stuff that is produced in a way that is harmful.
You're wrong. Many people are motivated only by self-interest and know almost nothing about the provenance of the goods they buy and don't care.
I think the climate hysteria is an evil lie to exploit poor people, to make them pay and buy more.
The lie is the one you have believed - that this isn't a crisis. The hysteria comes when running from your burning home or finding it blown away or flooded.
And how do you think that climate "hysteria" causes poorer people to buy or spend?
My wife and I went solar in 2011 with ten panels and a solar water heater. Our power has been free since, and we only consume 1/4th as much propane as before, since it is only used for the range and outdoor grill now - not hot water for sinks, showers, and appliances that clean clothes and dishes with hot water. It paid for itself in six years.
All the solutions government gives for the fake problem are for the benefit of the rich rulers of the world, not for environment or common people.
You've been listening to conservative indoctrination media, which aims to beat back the side of government that doesn't serve the wealthy. These people love government, but not when it helps YOU. They see it as a mechanism to transfer wealth from the middle class to the wealthy. To do that, you pay the taxes, not them, and they are spent on their defense contracts or bailouts, not on you. Military, police and prisons serve them, so those get funded publicly - by YOU, not them. But Medicare and Social Security? Disability and unemployment insurance? They're all targets of the people you trust.
All advancements seems to have caused only more problems, polluted nature, caused more diseases.
This is an Abrahamic trope. The evidence is that the world has gotten better throughout my lifetime, but the church, like the right, trades in fear and nihilism. Unfortunately, not fear of climate change or of authoritarian regimes, which will likely make life worse for a time, and we can expect the conservatives to worsen both as the humanists object and resist.
Also, look for the church to bully target demographics and constrict reproductive and marriage rights. Humanists will mitigate these problems to the extent that they can overcome the right and the church. How nice if you would help.
Why do you think forced socialism doesn't fail?
Because we have eyes to see. The happiest countries on earth are the liberal, secular, social democracies
