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Topic	Minorities should not have more power over the majority
ParanoidObsessive 10/30/18 8:13:05 AM #28:	Mead posted... It isnt about giving them power, its about making sure they have equal rights and opportunities Yknow, that freedom thing Arguably, equality and enforced opportunity is the opposite of freedom. Freedom includes the freedom to be shitty to other people. Keeping people from being shitty to each other inherently involves curtailing freedom. It's part of why anarchy is nice in theory but a problem in practice. The same might also be said for things like the free market. Or pure democracy. ...which is probably why we don't actually practice any of those things, no matter which buzzwords we love to use for PR purposes. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:911441897] in Minorities... [t:77146408]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>It isnt about giving them power, its about making sure they have equal rights and opportunities Yknow, that freedom thing</quote> Arguably, equality and enforced opportunity is the opposite of freedom. Freedom includes the freedom to be shitty to other people. Keeping people from being shitty to each other inherently involves curtailing freedom. It's part of why anarchy is nice in theory but a problem in practice. The same might also be said for things like the free market. Or pure democracy. ...which is probably why we don't actually practice any of those things, no matter which buzzwords we love to use for PR purposes. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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