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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 12540 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12753 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12713 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13051 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12775 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13142 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13084 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13245 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12960 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13132 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12913 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13121 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13121 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 12835 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13121 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 12669 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 12066 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13121 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12913 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13132 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12960 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13245 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13084 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13142 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12775 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13051 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12713 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12753 times)