What is the main objection some people have to the use of Identity Cards. It has nothing to do with libertarianism. It is just commonsense that the nation must have as much details on individual citizens as is possible for law and order, health services, science development, in fact all-round economic development. The day you see that Democracy has broken down is the day one should worry about things that are a quite natural way of governing society. I am a Libertarian but do not believe in privacy. I believe in openness to the nth degree. We need to expose ourselves. It is in our interests that we do this for Truth protects and preserves to the mind of a Vishista Advaita Vedantist. Further, when we have a functioning Democracy as we indeed do have in the United Kingdom and one is not criminally-minded what is the harm to have an DNA-based Identity Card in your pocket.
This principle applies to Covid certifiates as too as being a practical measure to enable us to get back some degree of freedom to move about outside the house that we are secluded, have holidays, go to concerts, watch football and cricket matches and enjoy life generally given that we have a dangerous enemy to shrug off in the coronavirus.
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Covid Certificates and Identity Cards
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I am a Libertarian at heart, but in the present society of the United Kingdom and globally that one lives in being a Libertarian is only possible in the seclusion of one's home, or in a monastery. When one lives as part of society, one has to engage in all the aspects of society in order to regulate the society and this process goes on until there is an ideal society formed. We are a long way away from having that ideal society. I have a formula for that. It is named as The Conservative Libertarian Society. But it failed to secure any interest whatsoever so I realised that it can only come about through peaceful means of activism over generations and that peaceful means of activism is through utilising the tools and instruments of democracy as exist now. We are where we are, and we have to do what we can to continue with our efforts to maintain a peaceful society that does not burden our social and armed services who need to have the surveillance tools to monitor what is going on in society now.
Furthermore, Mr Boris Johnson is the Prime Minister with an overwhelming mandate from the Party and the electorate to take the nation forwards over the next three years. If he introduces ID cards of various descriptions which were banded about years ago but failed to materialise, I feel that he would go down as a great Prime Minister.
What will happen in the next election is nothing to be concerned about, for if the electorate feel that he is wrong in what he does, democracy would have prevailed, and the next phase of evolution of society will then take shape. If Labour get into power why should Conservatives worry about that now. If Conservatives can convince the public of their arguments and come to a consensus among themselves, produce the appropriate manifesto they play our part in democracy. So, I now describe myself as a Conservative with a focus on the principles of libertarianism tempered by democracy, as the overriding ethos.