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This Is, Perhaps, The Difference Between The Right And Myself
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| | That assumes every child who will be in a house will need protection. And yours assumes everyone will actually want to exercise their option to use lead paint. Indeed! Mine is the option of having options, yours is of not. Options that do nothing but hurt people, of course. We disagree on that as well. No, we don't. Otherwise you would have come up with a better argument than "FREEDOM!" by now.
Abstract black and white principles are the last bastion for those who don't have better reasons. Abstract black and white principles are the last bastion for those who don't have better reasons.
Reality doesn't count, in other words. No. Reality counts more than abstract principles.
Marxism has some pretty solid abstract principles. Sounds kinda nice in some ways. But they don't work. You can tell by the way adherents insist the problem lies in the people, not the ideology.
Likewise, you have some solid abstract principles. And people have, throughout history, abandoned them whenever possible. That should tell you something. No. Reality counts more than abstract principles.
Except, of course, when that reality is an abstract principle.
Yeah, I find libertarianism kind of sketchy myself. |
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