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Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:57:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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It affects you and me because of the culture that will be formed based on
such values. I don’t want to live in such a sick culture and I don’t want
my culture contaminated with such values.
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I think you just said that it’s sick because it’s sick. Is that really what you
meant?
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So you are expressly stating that the rights of the minority are subject to
the whim of the majority?
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So you are expressly stating that the rights of the majority are subject to
the whim of the minority?
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I have, over and over -- across the years, claimed that the rights of the
majority and the minority must both be set up so that they do not conflict and
so that they prevent victimization. You (regardless of whether you are part of
a minority or the majority) should not have the right to legislate aesthetics
such that non-victimizing behavior on the part of other citizens (likewise
regardless of their place within the national popularity contest) is illegal.
Only when *someone* is harmed do you have the right to limit the behavior of the
person doing the harm.
There is no whim involved.
Chris
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) I realize this and I believe in an absolute morality, but he doesn't. I am trying to appeal to his sensibilities, not mine (which I know he flatly rejects). I am arguing on his turf, as it were. (...) I assume you are talking about when I (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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