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posted on 25/6/2020 09:18The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue
was to you asking whether I was ok with people ****ting in the street or dumping toxic waste. I was saying that this was an extreme example that you were using to make a wider point.
Your question as to whether I think the restrictions were reasonable is a fair one, and the answer, for what it's worth, is no. I think they were far too wide and represented a grave intrusion on individual freedoms.
But the question in my original post was intended to be on the wider point as to whether the labour voting people on here would agree with the Telegraph's assertion that Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that Covid has caused. Put another way, is a high degree of state control a desirable state of affairs for your average-Joe Labour voter?
Your question as to whether I think the restrictions were reasonable is a fair one, and the answer, for what it's worth, is no. I think they were far too wide and represented a grave intrusion on individual freedoms.
But the question in my original post was intended to be on the wider point as to whether the labour voting people on here would agree with the Telegraph's assertion that Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that Covid has caused. Put another way, is a high degree of state control a desirable state of affairs for your average-Joe Labour voter?
- "Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that the emergency has ushered in." - bitterblue 24/6 21:40 (read 15079 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 15397 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 15330 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 15773 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 15468 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 15841 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 15884 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 15946 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 15683 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 15838 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 15627 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 15914 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 15789 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 15624 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 15789 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 15329 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 14573 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 15914 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 15627 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 15838 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 15683 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 15946 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 15884 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 15841 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 15468 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 15773 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 15330 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 15397 times)
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