Your Choice, Not The Government's
The Government is comprised of politicians and public servants with no
special insight or wisdom.
Despite that, it constantly tells us what is best for us and how we
should
run our lives.
It tells us we should eat healthy foods, not smoke, wear a helmet
when we ride a bicycle and not use marijuana. It tells us how to
discipline our children, whether we can renovate our houses and who
we are permitted to marry. It prevents us from owning a gun to
protect our families in our own home and stops us from obtaining
help to end our own lives even when we are in terminal pain. It
forces us to vote even when we don't want
to.
It ties up enterprising businesses in regulations and red tape that
prevent them from investing, expanding and employing more people.
The LDP believes people should make their own choices and accept
responsibility for the consequences. It believes governments have
neither the expertise nor the right to tell people how to run their
lives and should stick to things like protecting Australia from
attack and safeguarding property rights.
The LDP believes in legalising
assisted suicide,
the right of self defence
and voluntary voting. It considers property owners (including
hoteliers and restaurateurs), not the government, should decide
whether
smoking is
allowed on their property and whether to
remove trees on their land.
It believes the government has no business regulating
victimless crimes
such as adult consensual prostitution, adult pornography or risky
behaviour that harms nobody else. It believes
speed
limits should
be determined by what most motorists regard as safe, not what public
servants deem to be acceptable.
Even when the choices that individuals make are unwise and could
harm them, so long as nobody else is involuntarily adversely
affected the
LDP says, "It's your choice, not the government's."
