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A self-identified liberal, quoted elsewhere on Random Observations: Liberals value much more an individual's personal choice and freedom... a conservative wants to ban all things they find offensive or morally objectionable. At the time I mentioned Tipper Gore and Lieberman*. Now there's this: When John Ashcroft was nominated for attorney general, his political enemies spent a lot of time mocking him for belonging to a denomination that does not allow its members to engage in dancing. Since taking office, Mr. Ashcroft has done absolutely nothing to infringe upon the rights of people who like to dance. Tom Daschle, however, is now pushing legislation that could send dance promoters to federal prison for up to 20 years. Daschle's anti-dancing legislation is a mean-spirited assault on youth culture, and an extreme violation of principles of federalism. Other sponsors are Democrats too, including Schumer, Biden, Boxer, Kennedy and Hillary. Okay, folks please remember out there, its your principles by which you must judge a candidate or politician, not their party membership. A little too much "us versus them" going on out there. Kudos to Glenn Reynolds. * I don't actually disagree with Tipper and Lieberman's stances on media content. Tipper pushed product content labelling which is not a form of censorship. You can still buy records with obscene lyrics, they're just labelled as such. My point is that these initiatives came from the left, not the right, as does the one above. Add your two cents...
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I think that elements of the left have no trouble with curtailing freedom in the name of physical hazard, while elements of the right have no trouble with curtailing freedom in the name of moral hazard. So the left doesn't like the right "ramming their morality" down our throats, and the right mocks the left for trying to make the world completely safe for every idiot.
Just one more thing to make the world go 'round.
Posted by: Kevin Murphy on January 31, 2003 08:05 AM