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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 9088 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 9311 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 9176 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 9465 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 9239 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 9585 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 9533 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 9697 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 9439 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 9564 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 9280 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 9537 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 9554 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 9297 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 9554 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 9199 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 8797 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 9537 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 9280 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 9564 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 9439 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 9697 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 9533 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 9585 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 9239 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 9465 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 9176 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 9311 times)