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The proper argument is the American ideal of personal liberty. Our rights are only supposed to be curtailed in situations where the expression of one's rights
by roc 17y ago
The proper argument is the American ideal of personal liberty. Our rights are only supposed to be curtailed in situations where the expression of one's rights negative impacts another. The plant being non-toxic, this does not happen.
An appeal to an undefined "common sense" is unnecessary.
- jacobolus 17y ago> American ideal of personal liberty Community control has been an ideal just as long. Go re-read your Tocqueville.
- netcan 17y agoEthics, the kind deferred to in politics, usually boils down to some vague, undefined but shared (common) something. The American liberty is also essentially a common American sensibility. Very few of those who defer to it could articulate one of the (usually pretty technical) liberal arguments.