[ExI] flds raid, was general repudiation...

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 15:30:37 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
>  "Oh, but they're only *children*!", the cry will then go out.
>  "They don't know what is best for them, their parents don't
>  know what is best for them, and their friends and neighbors
>  don't know what is best for them!
>
>  "But *WE* know what is best for them, and we have the
>  men, badges, dogs, and guns to prove it!"

Yes, I think that much goes down to that, which means, btw, that after
a while you start seeing a moral duty to enforce your way of life also
in other sovereign countries.

And personally I prefer to err on the side of a community's freedom to
give itself its own rules...

Stefano Vaj



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