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I have the liberty to do as I please as a human being on this planet so long as it doesn't hurt you. No, you don't. There is such a thing as exposure to risk.
by glurgh 13y ago
I have the liberty to do as I please as a human being on this planet so long as it doesn't hurt you.
No, you don't. There is such a thing as exposure to risk. Otherwise anyone would have the liberty to build a toxic waste processing plant by your back yard because, hey, that's not hurting you. Yet.
Strangely, this is not the established way of things in any actually functional society.
- ianstallings 13y agoThe beauty of liberty is I don't care what you think about me exercising it. That's kind of the point I was trying to make. That whole "give me liberty or give me death" thing really means something to some of us and we really don't care what others think. They have a name for us actually - Americans.
- glurgh 13y agoNo, those are caricature Americans. No thinking Americans, starting with the founders, made it a point of pride of ignoring what other people think. They may have arrived at different conclusions but the notion they did so because liberty is some function of willful ignorance is idiotic.
- ianstallings 13y agoAh yes, ad hominem attacks. Thanks! I look forward to more intelligent discussions with you sir.
- glurgh 13y ago'Ad hominem' is not some sort of magical incantation you can simply call upon to protect you from 'stupid'. Argue your point.
- ianstallings 13y agoNo thanks.