I make a difference between the minority ruling that all should be treated equally, and the minority ruling that other people can't be doing 'X' because then we'd be acting like a certain group of people and that group is bad.
londo and I were discussing this last night... hopefully he'll hop on and add his comment. If not I'll summarize for him later.
Not exactly. Like nearly every political strategy ever used, the left hit on it first, but it's the right that's perfecting it. But, yes, it's totally the same strategy, just applied in the other direction.
Okay. Now that I think about it, that's not the best example. I don't want to open a can of gender war worms. Anywho, the point is that the minority should still have rights. It doesn't matter if it's the left or the right. We have to have wiggle room for everyone.
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on 17 Nov 2004 13:45 (UTC)no subject
on 17 Nov 2004 21:55 (UTC)Rather than the 'everyone else is jumping off the bridge' kind of way.
The fact that you brought up the left makes me think, at least subtextually, you meant the second.
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on 18 Nov 2004 05:42 (UTC)no subject
on 18 Nov 2004 06:13 (UTC)no subject
on 18 Nov 2004 06:14 (UTC)Moral relativism is a tricky beast.
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on 19 Nov 2004 14:33 (UTC)no subject
on 19 Nov 2004 14:37 (UTC)no subject
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on 19 Nov 2004 14:37 (UTC)(What's with all my worm references?)
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on 19 Nov 2004 23:29 (UTC)no subject
on 21 Nov 2004 12:26 (UTC)