Gary Trudeau needs to be punched in the cock

[spartakos]

I really don't hate liberals. At the risk of sounding like That Guy, some of my best friends are liberals. I consider myself a liberal, in many ways (in the sense of Thomas Jefferson, not Jesse Jackson, that is). And I resent the right-wingers who disparage liberals, and try work against that type as much as possible

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[eremos]

I understand that it's a fundamental issue for a lot of people, but I wish we'd quit getting up in arms (pardon the pun) about "rights". We spend, and waste, more time arguing the infinitesimal details of what does and does not constitute a "right" than considering the greater good. Most of the time, I don't give a shit about who has the right to do what, so long as we are moving ahead on a path that produces a good result for society and country. All rights are fluid, even the ones that aren't. Freedom of expression is a very different thing now than it was in the 18th century, not merely because the tools and techniques of expression have changed. Our ideas have changed, our technology has changed, our demographics have changed, and the very soul of our country along with them. To presume that we can govern our people now with rules written then is something very akin to stupidity

[spartakos]

Seldom has someone managed to make such confident assertions that are nonetheless entirely incorrect. :)

I understand that it's a fundamental issue for a lot of people, but I wish we'd quit getting up in arms (pardon the pun) about "rights". We spend, and waste, more time arguing the infinitesimal details of what does and does not constitute a "right" than considering the greater good.This, for instance, is 100% wrong. Because rights are ABOUT the greater good. Whenever someone tells me to abrogate my freedom of self-determination for "the greater good", what he means is HIS freedom of self-determination. I cannot get a group of 20 people at a cocktail party to agree on what cosntitutes "the greater good"...how do you propose to get a nation of several million to agree on it

[cathieanne]

Man, Doonesbury drives me eight kinds of crazy.