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posted on 25/6/2020 08:36Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue
We can all pick extreme examples of something so as to justify a wider point. I'd equally say to you that rock climbing and mountain biking can be dangerous so should we ban those? The answer, to both your example and mine, for most reasonable people is obvious.
The wider point however is important. To what extent should governments dictate to the individual how they behave. My view, since you ask, is that the starting point in every case should be that there is no state compulsion and instead a reliance on the individual to make sensible choices of their own.
The wider point however is important. To what extent should governments dictate to the individual how they behave. My view, since you ask, is that the starting point in every case should be that there is no state compulsion and instead a reliance on the individual to make sensible choices of their own.
- "Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that the emergency has ushered in." - bitterblue 24/6 21:40 (read 9092 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 9316 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 9184 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 9470 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 9245 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 9592 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 9539 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 9702 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 9442 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 9574 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 9286 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 9550 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 9564 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 9305 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 9564 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 9208 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 8803 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 9550 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 9286 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 9574 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 9442 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 9702 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 9539 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 9592 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 9245 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 9470 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 9184 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 9316 times)