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To: TimF who wrote (88347)	11/26/2004 12:28:40 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793983

Do you see the distinction between whether the government allows you to shop at the local supermarket (or use cocaine), and whether it recognizes a specific tax deduction as valid? Do you see that both examples involve the government? I don't think you can give me an example of freedom that is independent of government. The government can require, permit, disallow, or ignore at its will. Where it permits or ignores, we have freedom. In all cases, government is a factor. Traditions have no enforcement authority unless they are codified into law. The closest they come to restricting freedom is by shunning. t is a destruction of the social construct of "gay marriage". Gay marriage is not an institution. Creative destruction means breaking down institutions and replacing them with something new. To apply the term, the thing that is being destroyed has to be old. Sort of like discrimination. You can't use that term to apply to the exclusion of majorities, only minorities. Until and unless the minorities' defense mechanisms become so entrenched that they are old institutions, that is. Once gay marriage is established and a newer wave starts to appear, then you can talk about the creative destruction of gay marriage. Meanwhile, gay marriage is just part of the creative destruction of marriage, along with divorce, no-fault divorce, the pill, women's lib, etc. If you want to call the part of the gay marriage issue that deals with judicial fiat the creative destruction of the judicial system, I won't give you an argument. <g> <<A term coined in 1942 by Joseph Schumpeter in his work, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, to denote a "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." Investopedia Says... In other words, creative destruction occurs when something new kills an old thing. >>