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 13669 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 13941 times)
  - in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 13903 times)
    - And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 14316 times)
      - Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 14039 times)
        
        I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 14422 times)
        
        The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 14385 times)
        
        Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 14514 times)
        
        Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 14263 times)
        
        I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 14419 times)
        
        You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 14201 times)
        
        would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 14354 times)
        
        I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 14335 times)
        
        (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 14021 times)
        
        "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 13849 times)
        
        <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 13204 times)

posted on 25/6/2020 09:03I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci.

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