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30 Oct 2006, 7:33 pm

The whole Western culture is committing suicide, slowly and painfully, at least for those of us who aren't ignorant jerks.

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30 Oct 2006, 7:39 pm

BazzaMcKenzie wrote:

So long as they are allowed to buy a beer at the football, most people are happy.

Allowed being the operative word. We will no longer have rights, only privileges.

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30 Oct 2006, 7:43 pm

We the subjects, the sheeple, the obedient cowards!

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30 Oct 2006, 8:17 pm

wiggerbeater wrote:

xon wrote:

I don't see any trouble with a government that goes out of its way to protect its citizens. But we need to make sure it is effective at that goal.

Freedom and safety are opposites.

Please explain.

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30 Oct 2006, 8:47 pm

xon wrote:

wiggerbeater wrote:

xon wrote:

I don't see any trouble with a government that goes out of its way to protect its citizens. But we need to make sure it is effective at that goal.

Freedom and safety are opposites.

Please explain.

Very simple. NYC just banned certain kinds of fatty oils to be used in all restaurants. Safety being health-freedom being the right to harm your health, and chose what to put in your own body. This goes for seat belts, smoking, etc... It would be much safer to never leave our house, but we like the freedom of being able to leave it. It's very hard to increase safety without decreasing freedom. The trick is finding an intelligent balance.

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30 Oct 2006, 8:58 pm

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The trick is finding an intelligent balance.

I agree.

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30 Oct 2006, 9:13 pm

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The trick is finding an intelligent balance.

I agree, but only because my response would include better education, especially in terms of teaching - A teacher must own the knowledge he or she is passing on and they must do it with a good understanding of how ALL students learn - then society will blossom into paradise

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