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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (106890)7/21/2005 12:12:08 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I think it is fine to close your culture to outsiders if that is what you want to do, and if your laws allow it. The Islamic societies do everything they can to discourage infidels from living in them- other religions are often illegal. The West could to this as well- though some countries, like ours, would have to change their constitutions. Barring that sort of change, which would result in a very different type of society, I don't see how you can have real freedom, and not constantly live with the risk that reactionary forces will try to change the freedom in to tyranny. That's part of the beauty of democracy- the risk and fragility of it.
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