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To: Bridge Player who wrote (76599)7/26/2008 4:05:05 PM
From: Cogito  Respond to of 543233
 
>>Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of

...Speech codes
...parental spanking
...neighborhood covenants
...seat belt laws
...anti-smoking laws
...bar closing laws
...Sunday liquor sales laws
...liquor sales in grocery laws
...campaign finance laws
...jaywalking laws
...medical marijuana laws
...hate crime laws<<

BP -

I'd agree with you on many of those, while some of the others seem justifiable to me, in the public interest. I believe such things need to be judged on a case by case basis. Like anti-smoking. People don't have some kind of intrinsic right to pollute the air, especially indoors. That's my opinion.

I'm not sure what kind of speech codes you mean. The only ones I can think of are the FCC rules against using certain words on broadcast television, some of which are banned during certain hours, and others banned outright.

BTW, I think you will find restrictive neighborhood covenants a lot more in Republican neighborhoods. But I am only making a supposition, based on observation. My personal observations were not scientifically gathered, however, so I could be wrong.

The point I think we have made, together, is that there are people on both sides of the political spectrum who wish to curtail the behavior of others, and who have their justifications (or rationalizations, if you disagree with them) for doing so. Wishing to "infringe on the freedom" of others is not specifically a Liberal trait.

Liberals like freedom. Conservatives like freedom. Yet we all know there is a need for laws. We may simply disagree about which laws are needed and justifiable.

- Allen


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