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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 12543 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12766 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12722 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13067 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12790 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13158 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13090 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13251 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12970 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13142 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12926 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13133 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13129 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 12849 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13129 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 12675 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 12077 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13133 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12926 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13142 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12970 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13251 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13090 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13158 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12790 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13067 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12722 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12766 times)