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posted on 25/6/2020 09:03I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci.
So it is not an extreme example at all to ask you: Do you think the restrictions we were under in April and May were reasonable, i.e. state compulsion? Or should we have relied upon individuals "to make sensible choices"?
And what do you do when individuals make bad choices rather than sensible ones?
- “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell -
- "Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that the emergency has ushered in." - bitterblue 24/6 21:40 (read 17396 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 17858 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 17750 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 18245 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 17907 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 18349 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 18355 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 18445 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 18117 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 18340 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 18062 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 18621 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 18323 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 18305 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 18323 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 17788 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 17028 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 18621 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 18062 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 18340 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 18117 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 18445 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 18355 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 18349 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 17907 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 18245 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 17750 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 17858 times)
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