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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 9287 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 9503 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 9395 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 9660 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 9436 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 9778 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 9716 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 9881 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 9618 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 9754 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 9480 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 9729 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 9734 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 9464 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 9734 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 9367 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 8960 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 9729 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 9480 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 9754 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 9618 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 9881 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 9716 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 9778 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 9436 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 9660 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 9395 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 9503 times)
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