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 12540 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12749 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12711 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13043 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12769 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13136 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13069 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13229 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12954 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13128 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12911 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13120 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13113 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 12824 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13113 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 12660 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 12060 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13120 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12911 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13128 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12954 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13229 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13069 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13136 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12769 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13043 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12711 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12749 times)