Caliya
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Post by Caliya on Jan 27, 2016 21:13:51 GMT
"personal liberty"
To ascribe this to only one party, Libertarians, is kind of absurd. Who, in any party, do you know that does not want personal liberty?
I'd rather describe the Libertarian (and Republican) viewpoint as "selfish" personal liberty. They don't care if their wanting to decimate an entire old growth forest affects anyone or anything. They should have a right to chop it all down to make money, but only in their own lifetime because there is no forest left for anyone to profit. No regulators, everyone for themselves, carry a gun to make sure no one bothers you in your pursuit to utterly destroy the environment.
Personal liberty indeed.
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titsup
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Post by titsup on Jan 27, 2016 21:34:27 GMT
I think it's the primacy of personal liberty, as in personal liberty is the trump.
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Caliya
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Post by Caliya on Jan 27, 2016 21:49:53 GMT
I think it's the primacy of personal liberty, as in personal liberty is the trump. I wasn't faulting you for using the term personal liberty. I hear it everywhere. I just wanted to give my take. I can't really speak for any party, as I belong to none. But I can say I like personal liberty, but I also like a planet that children and successive generations can make a living and not die from toxic overload too.
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Post by dodgy on Jan 28, 2016 0:01:58 GMT
I love sinking my teeth into this. It's all linked and from attempts to label and group people. Like how bleeding hearts/liberals are left in Australia.
We need beer and a basement to hash this out
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Caliya
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Post by Caliya on Jan 28, 2016 0:12:11 GMT
I've been accused of being a bleeding heart liberal, dodgyI've been called worse. =) Come at me =)
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Post by dodgy on Jan 28, 2016 0:25:05 GMT
I've been accused of being a bleeding heart liberal, dodgyI've been called worse. =) Come at me =) Oh you totally are. But often the difference between a right wing whacko ie me are a few points and generally agree with 90% of the other shit
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