Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


I have to disagree with you on one point and that is everybody has the same
right to enjoy their time as the next guy. That sounds fair but it isn't.
One needs to add the qualifier that everybody has the same right to enjoy
their time as they see fit AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T BOTHERING SOMEBODY ELSE
WITH THEIR NOISE, SMELL, COMMOTTION, POLLUTION, CLOSE PROXIMITY, SLOPPY
ANCHORING, DRUG ABUSE, THEIVERY, RUDE BEHAVIOR, ETC.

In other words, it involves the golden rule. Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you. If you are such a self-centered, rude sumbitch that
you end up with your anchor rode cut you should take the hint and shut the
f*ck up. If you love loud music then wear earphones and crank up the volume
until it shatters your eardrums but don't impose yourself on everybody else
in the anchorage. That will end you up sunk or worse.

I know of one anchorage where drug dealers set up in an old derelict of a
boat. It was only allowed to continue for about a month with the coming and
goings of addicts at all hours. When it got to the point when the addicts
were stealing dinghies, motors, anchors, life jackets and breaking into
anchored boats their drug boat ended up burning to the waterline and sinking
one dark night. End of problem!

It is often said that might makes right. And, fortunately, those who are
interested in right are most often the mightiest and that works to all our
advantage.


A right is something which can be and needs be asserted. If a right is
violated, then those who assert against the transgressor needs to have
the backing of some sort of law.

The founders believed natural law backed their revolution against the
Crown. Here we have no such backing. If I were to take action against a
peace transgressor, that transgressor could and likely would set the
local law enforcement against me.

Your example of a drug dealer is off the grid of what we can reasonably
expect to encounter. Clearly a drug dealer who is making a fuss at
anchorage won't call the sheriff so he can continue to proceed with his
business. However, playing rap crap or running a genset so one can view
the latest TV Idol show is within governing law and thus the loser in a
confrontation would likely be those seeking peace.