Me: *thinking* "Yeah. They're always telling me that government officials have a right to make decisions for my body, they want to tell me when I'm gonna have kids and whom I can marry... Those liberals, man. When are they going to learn to let adults control their own lives?"
This is the A Number One problem: all too many folks out there, liberal as well as conservative, don't understand that freedom is indivisible. Someone, somewhere, sometime is going to use that freedom to say or do something that you don't like. Even if that something doesn't personally affect them, or pose a threat to their person and/or property.
Illegal abortion also means that you can't have the defective fetus removed before it dies and takes the healthy fetus with it, and possibly the mother as well, due to blood poisoning.
The WoD that keeps "kids" from dropping E also caused Mother unnecessary suffering because the doctor was too afraid to prescribe the necessary doses of pain killers.
The free speech and freedom of assembly that allows you to hold a gay pride parade also allows the same to the local preacher and his following at that parade.
If Adam and Steve tie the knot, will Mr and Mrs Righteous get a divorce?
You can't secure your own freedom without allowing the same for others.
I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
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Date: 2009-08-02 08:10 pm (UTC)From:This is the A Number One problem: all too many folks out there, liberal as well as conservative, don't understand that freedom is indivisible. Someone, somewhere, sometime is going to use that freedom to say or do something that you don't like. Even if that something doesn't personally affect them, or pose a threat to their person and/or property.
Illegal abortion also means that you can't have the defective fetus removed before it dies and takes the healthy fetus with it, and possibly the mother as well, due to blood poisoning.
The WoD that keeps "kids" from dropping E also caused Mother unnecessary suffering because the doctor was too afraid to prescribe the necessary doses of pain killers.
The free speech and freedom of assembly that allows you to hold a gay pride parade also allows the same to the local preacher and his following at that parade.
If Adam and Steve tie the knot, will Mr and Mrs Righteous get a divorce?
You can't secure your own freedom without allowing the same for others.