Posted by Matiz on April 17, 2001 at 20:40:08:
In Reply to: Re: Morality Police posted by Aardvark on April 17, 2001 at 19:46:29:
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I can see that you and I are reacting to quite different aspects of this issue. In retrospect, I was concerned about the need for both sides to have free expression: those who rail against immorality should have their say, and those who rail against the railers should have their say too. In a strange coincidence, between my earlier post and this one, I came across this apropos passage in the book I was reading: "Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men...Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
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