What can we do without Government Permission?

CPL -- Your views are the views of one singular family! Apparently, you do not realize that there are thousands of families in your situation. The money that you pay for the fishing licences is designed to goe intobuilding, maintaining and issuing new fishing wildlife to support your desire and thousands of others to fish for food or sport. They do not own the ocean, but someone somewhere must work and build to maintain the level of marine life. I do not fish, so why should I pay for such? It makes sense to charge those who fish for the privaledge. Someone had to build the boat ramp that you use, and someone has to maintain it. That costs money., Specific licences are necessary because certain species are far more desired than others, such as salmon as opposed to a dogfish! In some cases measuring a fish length is necessary to maintain the fish population. Some people wil take fish who are too small, and thereby reducing the number of usable fish in the total population. Such provisions are definately not "STUPID"! Not everyone is as thoughtful and skilled as you are in the approach to the maintenance of a balanced fishing occupation!!

Hmmmm! How unfortunate for you! However, since I live in the same year, I find that my opinions are quite safe from anyone's attempt to altar them, except by solid proof that my opinions are in error!! Now if I take my opinions to the next stage and injure others in some way, then I must take the result of my actions by whatever authority this culture that I live in has mandated. Sometimes the problem is that some small part of that authority is biased, or pursuaded by some instance to ignor their sworn duty, and that is when people begin to tall stories, which get bigger and bigger the more they are told!!

CWO2 James Mathews You may have neglected to consider that there are some people who hold the view that if you are not with them 100% then you must obviously be against them 100% and are obviously the living strawman that you need. And deserve to be attacked. Because obviously the person who did not march in the gay pride day is hitler and this is obviously a world of black and white and no in between.

Recently, I had an issue with an online art group, one of the members of said group was very pro-pedophilia. And because I voiced an opinion on the subject and indicated that I felt that computer generated or not, that we don't need that type of that type artwork, I was banned from that group and tracked down to other groups and harassed in them because they felt that voicing an opinion against someone who was respected and in leadership was wrong.

Now myself being the bastard I am, decided to have some one on one talks with some of these people, I knew them in some IRCs and on discord and slack-chats, and I did this because I found it hard to believe that there were that many damn pedophiles engaged in CG art (although to be fair, it is an issue in that field) and after the second or third discussion I discovered something, these people had an inability to judge a situation on its own merit and often perceived that a conflict with the group on one point meant that you were opposed to it on every point.

And to their credit when I did talk with them, most of them did not approve of the practice of pedophilia and found it revolting, but there are some people who are so conditioned not to stick out of the group that they find anyone who makes the slightest ripple is a malcontent and will look at them through a filter that can only assign fault to any and all of their behaviors, and unfortunately with said filter they will overlook any and all of their groups faults.

And before you think I am utterly crazy, just keep in mind that there is a group of people who has felt that things such as milk and the moon were endowed with human agency and that agency was obviously racist.

My thanks for your very kind response to my comment. No, I do not think you are crazy, or a bastard! You have determined a way which satisfies you about how to deal with the problem. I guess, my problem is that I have never been in a position to deal with, in any way, the kind of people that you spoke with. While I am fully aware that there are such people in the world, and I take them into account in my daily activities, I am not close enough to discuss their views with them. Now there are some reasons for that:; I have never sought them out since I have better things to do. I am quite sure, without discussiing the matter, that my views will collide with thiers. I do not wish to fight with anyone, and so I tend to do what has proven to be beneficial for me, and let those who are much more intelligent than I, in phychological aspects, deal with those kinds of problems. Lastly, while I sympathize with those people whose minds differ from their physical bodies, but I do not understand it, and moreover, it is my belief that such individuals do not understand it either! Therefore, in my view, it would be best to keep my nose out of their problems, and let an expert handle any concerns that arise. I have had many people hate me, for what I demanded, for what I asked, and what I stand for, in my life. I learned early that one must stand for who he or she is. So far in my 80+ years that has proven to be a very satisfactory stance.
Respectfully;
Marcus Audens