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I would never have suspected that in the land that ostensibly worships individuality, not being "ground into sameness" is worth mentioning. The UK has always s
by rdouble 13y ago
I would never have suspected that in the land that ostensibly worships individuality, not being "ground into sameness" is worth mentioning.
The UK has always seemed to have some respect for eccentricity but I wouldn't say they've been known as a place that "worships individuality." They have had a historical reputation for merciless bullying at the grade school level, though.
- arjie 13y agoThe person I'm replying to is American, and according to his profile is from Minnesota. Americans have a reputation for individualism.
- rdouble 13y agoOh, my bad. Americans hold the rights of the individual paramount but tend to be conformist socially. You have the right to be different but nobody is going to make it easy for you.
- arjie 13y agoAh, I see. Thanks for that.
- kylebrown 13y agoIf by individuals you mean corporations (as in "corporations are people, my friend"), then yes I agree, those rights are held to be paramount. But if you mean individual as in "my body my right", then I would have to disagree, those are not strongly held rights.
- glenra 13y agoThe "right of corporations to speak" is just the right of people to speak when organized into a group. The ACLU is a corporation. A union is a corporation. The essence of that decision was that when a bunch of individuals (who all individually have the right to speak) get together in a group and set up some rules, they don't by virtue of that fact lose the right to speak. It doesn't mean "corporations are people" except in the sense that corporations consist of people. (It's also worth noting that the vast majority of the recent nonsense over abortion has entirely to do with the last trimester. The fact that something is a "strongly held right" doesn't mean some people won't from time to time argue it should be modified or changed. That's just healthy political debate.)