Democracy in action: no way for anything to be "legal but not respectable". Normalize or ban are the only choices. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/those-french-bastards-will-they-never-learn-8919137.html …
@Aristokles11235 It's more that even if it is understood, anything seen as immoral will be made illegal because banning is a route to power.
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@anomalyuk Before we discuss that do you agree that there is no 'right' to engage in vice & that a government can regulate it as necessary? -
@Aristokles11235 I do agree. Indeed, 'rights' are rarely a useful mode of discussion, except in the sense of rights established by custom -
@anomalyuk Ok. The problem w/ power is not power itself but who has it, what their motivation is & what end it serves, -
@Aristokles11235 The formalist view is that the problem with power is the destructive behaviour it incentivises in those who compete for it. -
@anomalyuk They actually provide cover for the worst sort.
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@anomalyuk Then we can talk about power.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@anomalyuk I ask b/c the idea that moral wrongs are civil rights is liberal/libertarian concept & I want to eliminate that.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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