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Knowledge and transparency is oxygen to a democracy. Without an informed populace you can not have an effective democracy.

Caboose8685 4y ago
I agree with the theme of your message, but people won't be educated unless they seek it out themselves beyond just what the media spouts. That is all too sadly very rare.
peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> Knowledge and transparency is oxygen to a democracy Democracy can wait a week or two when a man is murdered that way Freedom means also that you have to earn it, if people can't wait to speculate online about things that are still being investigated, they probably don't deserve it. --- What if they waited a bit more before putting Lee Harvey Oswald on the front page of every newspaper? Maybe he would still be alive and we knew a lot more about what really happened. What if Kennedy assassination happened today, with social media and the "pornography of violence"? Think about it.
- yucky 4y ago
  >Freedom means also that you have to earn it Freedom isn't earned, authority is. Freedom is the default nature of man. Those in power who seek to limit freedom, must earn that right. And it can be quickly withdrawn.
  - peoplefromibiza 4y ago
    > Freedom is the default nature of man There's nothing natural in modern society. The only natural freedom is the freedom to survive.
    - mrguyorama 4y ago
      The lion cared not for our "freedom to survive", indeed I doubt the lions cared about property rights or the 2nd amendment either. Freedoms, even when they are freedoms FROM a state entity, only exist because society came together, usually in the form of a state entity, to set norms and expectations and promises.
      - yucky 4y ago
        This sounds like an argument that could be used to justify slavery.
  - trashtester 4y ago
    > Freedom is the default nature of man In actual Nature, there is absolutely no default state of freedom. The default is to eat or get eaten. "Freedom" is a social construct. Just _maybe_ there is some biological underpinning in the form of tit-for-tat based sets of defensive-oriented instincts. (If you don't hurt me, I'll not hurt you.)
oneoff786 4y ago
The motives of a crazy person are far less important than a long list of important policy nuances though. Why give this one precedence in air time.

Caboose8685 4y ago

I agree with the theme of your message, but people won't be educated unless they seek it out themselves beyond just what the media spouts. That is all too sadly very rare.

peoplefromibiza 4y ago

> Knowledge and transparency is oxygen to a democracy Democracy can wait a week or two when a man is murdered that way Freedom means also that you have to earn it, if people can't wait to speculate online about things that are still being investigated, they probably don't deserve it. --- What if they waited a bit more before putting Lee Harvey Oswald on the front page of every newspaper? Maybe he would still be alive and we knew a lot more about what really happened. What if Kennedy assassination happened today, with social media and the "pornography of violence"? Think about it.

yucky 4y ago
>Freedom means also that you have to earn it Freedom isn't earned, authority is. Freedom is the default nature of man. Those in power who seek to limit freedom, must earn that right. And it can be quickly withdrawn.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  > Freedom is the default nature of man There's nothing natural in modern society. The only natural freedom is the freedom to survive.
  - mrguyorama 4y ago
    The lion cared not for our "freedom to survive", indeed I doubt the lions cared about property rights or the 2nd amendment either. Freedoms, even when they are freedoms FROM a state entity, only exist because society came together, usually in the form of a state entity, to set norms and expectations and promises.
    - yucky 4y ago
      This sounds like an argument that could be used to justify slavery.
- trashtester 4y ago
  > Freedom is the default nature of man In actual Nature, there is absolutely no default state of freedom. The default is to eat or get eaten. "Freedom" is a social construct. Just _maybe_ there is some biological underpinning in the form of tit-for-tat based sets of defensive-oriented instincts. (If you don't hurt me, I'll not hurt you.)

oneoff786 4y ago

The motives of a crazy person are far less important than a long list of important policy nuances though. Why give this one precedence in air time.