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To: Dale Baker who wrote (94677)	11/7/2008 7:13:52 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541777

one of the few things I really can't stand is intolerance. I'm pretty much tolerant of anything but intolerance, too. social conservatives want to stop behavior in others they find unacceptable while social liberals want to force others to accept it, in effect banning intolerance. Liberals restrict freedom in other ways, I think. They justify it as protecting people and maybe they are but the net result is still a restriction in freedom. Liberals who would go to the end of the earth to defend freedom of choice on abortion cavalierly deny choice in say, er, seatbelts. <GG> The right think they're protecting people, too, from the horrors of, say, homosexuality. And themselves from being repulsed by it. Loss of freedom is still loss of freedom, justifiable or not. Arguing that it's justified is one thing. Denying that it restricts freedom is another.