Comments on: An E-Mail Exchange About America http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html Alex's Blog Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:42:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on An E-Mail Exchange About America by: SimonOwens http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10266 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:24:39 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10266 Meredith, is that you? :-P Meredith, is that you? :-P

]]> Comment on An E-Mail Exchange About America by: Adamantaimai http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10260 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:03:23 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10260 Like what? I don't think the government should be interfering with what people choose to do, as long as they're not hurting someone else. The government has no business protecting people from themselves. I think that we could safely eliminate the majority of laws. And as far as the "public good" is concerned, is Social Security, for example, a violation of the Constitution? Like what? I don’t think the government should be interfering with what people choose to do, as long as they’re not hurting someone else. The government has no business protecting people from themselves. I think that we could safely eliminate the majority of laws.

And as far as the “public good” is concerned, is Social Security, for example, a violation of the Constitution?

]]> Comment on An E-Mail Exchange About America by: KPalicz http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10258 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:45:41 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10258 I'd argue that half the issues you probably support also violate the Constitution in the name of the "public good" or protecting people from themselves. But because you, and people you support, propose them you think it is ok. Or not as bad as what "they" propose. I’d argue that half the issues you probably support also violate the Constitution in the name of the “public good” or protecting people from themselves. But because you, and people you support, propose them you think it is ok. Or not as bad as what “they” propose.

]]> Comment on An E-Mail Exchange About America by: Adamantaimai http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10253 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:38:54 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10253 Yeah that was nice. We shouldn't necessarily avoid fighting against the policies of "them" with which we rightly disagree. I can confidently say that those who want homosexuality, for example, to be illegal (and who want those who engage in homosexual acts to be imprisoned) are "wrong," and I will work against them, if only by sharing my own view with others. The person you were e-mailing with had a point though. America was founded upon many of the ideas that you listed, but too many people today do not share those ideas. They'll say that they do, of course, and many of them believe that they do. But in practice they will support the opposite of these ideas when it comes to their own prejudices. "It's for the public good," they say. "We need to protect America from immorality." And so they will impose laws that violate the Constitution, as many laws have done for the past century or more, for the purpose of legislating public morality and protecting people from themselves. Yeah that was nice.

We shouldn’t necessarily avoid fighting against the policies of “them” with which we rightly disagree. I can confidently say that those who want homosexuality, for example, to be illegal (and who want those who engage in homosexual acts to be imprisoned) are “wrong,” and I will work against them, if only by sharing my own view with others.

The person you were e-mailing with had a point though. America was founded upon many of the ideas that you listed, but too many people today do not share those ideas. They’ll say that they do, of course, and many of them believe that they do. But in practice they will support the opposite of these ideas when it comes to their own prejudices. “It’s for the public good,” they say. “We need to protect America from immorality.” And so they will impose laws that violate the Constitution, as many laws have done for the past century or more, for the purpose of legislating public morality and protecting people from themselves.

]]> Comment on An E-Mail Exchange About America by: SciVille http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10251 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:42:16 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2007/12/an_e-mail_exchange_about_america.html#comment-10251 Nice. Nice.

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