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Explanation and justification
Responsibility begins where freedom is granted.
Only those who are allowed to decide can also bear responsibility.
But if the state regulates, monitors, sanctions and prescribes every detail,
it deprives people of the opportunity to be responsible at all.

How this happens

• Health is managed instead of shaped
• Education is controlled instead of accompanied
• Opinions are evaluated instead of tested
• Decisions are predetermined instead of developed
• Laws are hoarded instead of understood
• Paragraphs replace justice with technology
• Even historical norms of injustice (from the Nazi or Weimar era) continue to apply
• The case-by-case decision is replaced by rigid regulations
• Jurisdiction becomes a specialization – no longer a civil right
  This creates a society of the dependent – not the self-determined.

Why responsibility is important

• It makes people mature
• It enables empathy and judgment
• It strengthens the community by helping to shape it
• It enables mistakes – and growth
• She demands confrontation instead of obedience
• It needs an overview, not excessive demands
  Because if you are to take on responsibility, you need to know and understand the rules. But this is hardly possible today: the abundance of laws is so confusing that even experts often fail – and ordinary citizens have long since given up.

Our position
We2030 says:
A free community does not need a bureaucratic jungle, but a lean, comprehensible legal framework supported by the people.
The number of laws must be reduced to the essentials – so manageable that they can be taught in schools.
It is not without reason that God gave mankind ten commandments – and not a legalistic series.

Every law needs an expiration date.
Laws must not apply forever, but must have a half-life after which they are reviewed and either confirmed, adapted or deleted. This is the only way to prevent old ways of thinking and authoritarian structures from dragging themselves unnoticed into the future.
This is the only way to give judges, defense lawyers and citizens the freedom they need to strive for real justice in each individual case – instead of blindly clinging to antiquated rules.

A truly just legal system must be so comprehensible that everyone can defend themselves – without having to study law.
Because only what people can understand can they perceive as just.

Responsibility is not a risk that the state must minimize – but a dignity that it must protect.
Where the state controls everything, it does not educate citizens – but subjects.
And a society without responsibility is not a free society.