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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (4610)	11/13/2006 12:08:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

Activist judges isn't a quite accurate term about some of them. Now, 'San Francisco Values'. Ok, let's list some San Francisco Values: 1) Diversity 2) Tolerance 3) Entrepreneurialism 4) Love of freedom 5) Spirit of independence and individual's rights Diversity is more a situation where you have multiple ideas and values accepted then a value itself. Diversity and tolerance often become tolerance for the types of diversity that I find acceptable. Love of freedom can be the same thing. San Francisco probably does have a lot of love of freedom, if that freedom is exercised in certain ways, but it doesn't have any kind of across the board love of freedom. Certainly San Franciscans accept quite a bit of intrusion on freedom of what people do with their money. As for "individual rights", there will of course be debate about what exactly those rights are, or even who is "an individual" that gets the rights. Even considering all of that its likely that San Francisco genuinely is more tolerant than the norm, but the reality is a bit more complex than saying "San Francisco is tolerant and loves freedom".