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I guess it's pretty much black and white for most of us if for life's duration we're forced to do what someone tells us to do. If permitted, we could do a few p
by vixen99 10y ago
I guess it's pretty much black and white for most of us if for life's duration we're forced to do what someone tells us to do. If permitted, we could do a few polls and discover whether such sanctions are regarded by those affected as 'consensus reality'.
'Evil' has religious overtones but it's not a bad word to sum up such a situation.
- eyko 10y agoEven in democracies, we're forced to do what our govt tells us to do, or not do. Soft drugs and alcohol are the perfect example of someone's opinion forced down our throats. the fact that some drugs are harness but illegal while others are harmful but legal. Americans couldn't travel to Cuba. During the cold war, USSR. Americans couldn't freely express socialist ideas never mind communist ones. This in a democracy. I don't really see a big difference. The peculiarities of Cuba can be understood in its geopolitical context.
- Trombone12 10y agoNo, daylight saving is the perfect example of someone's opinion forced upon us. There is a general case to be made for regulating toxic substances and the examples given are of people arguing over if particular substances really are toxic enough.
- peteretep 10y ago> we're forced to do what someone > tells us to do That is the case in almost all non-ananarchic societies. You are confusing a lack of suffrage for effective slavery.
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