Originally Posted By: GandC
Originally Posted By: AlanK
Originally Posted By: GandC
This subject can get wildly political very quickly. My opinion is that I should be allowed to go wherever I damn well please when I please to do it, and no government agency or worker should be able to tell me no. Seriously.

Of course: Go wherever I damn well please when I please to do it. But why stop there? Clear cut the woods, build a cabin (or a 37 room house), dam the stream (or just crap in it), and... (ok, I'll stop before getting more colorful).


And that's not an overreaction or anything, right? It's not even close to what I said. I'm not talking about taking over the land. I'm talking about being allowed to visit it. You know, since our tax dollars pay for it and all.

I don't stand in the way of others from doing what they want, and in return, I don't want anyone standing in mine. But I also don't expect to have someone come to my rescue when I screw the pooch. I just don't see what doesn't seem fair about that.


What I wrote went well beyond what you said and I'm sure it was not what you meant. You are probably a very reasonable person. I obviously intended to be hyperbolic. Along with going where you want to go, when you want to go there, is doing what you want to do. Just being there has some impact and many people like to do things that escalate the impact rather quickly. So, limits come into the discussion. Indeed, they are the discussion. In the civilized world, limits are a function of government.