Issues

[year_x]

A couple of issues that have struck me recently. I don't have fully formed opinions on them, but I thought I'd put them out here and see what other folk think.

Memorial to the 7/7 bombings:
Of course this should be marked with a memorial. But the thing that strikes me is that what is likely to be remembered is the murderous actions and the loss of '

Comments

[rorschach_85]

out of interest have you read grant naylors "incompetnce"?

[el_stoopio]

What a brilliant take up of legislative medaling that book is. Would it ever get to that point though or would society lash out eventually against that many ridiculous peaces of legislation, Unfortunately I think not.

[lwilson]

Certainly, I think that the British have an historic dislike of authority. I kind of have half a mind to link it to a tenuous thread running through from Henry VIII through Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill et. al. But then I don't really have more than a vague notion of their ideas (I'm sure I asked Laura to explain some of it to me at one stage - I probably sat looking vacant and uncomprehending). Although the idea that a sort of 'negative liberty' (freedom from something rather than freedom to do something) being quintessentially British is an appealing idea. Nevertheless, having the police enforce the use of booster seats in cars does sound a little silly - I'd say these things are largely enforced socially, like the wearing of seat-belts (which became mandatory only in 1983

[ghostsmut]

Yes, I think they wanted to blow people up due to all this legislation stopping them doing stuff.

And I think that if 20% of the country were as dedicated to fixing the fucking world as those guys were to blowing people up we would be a lot better off.

[llamarines]

Also - dongs

[year_x]

haha, no worries. as they say: "do the necessary"

have fun :D

[year_x]

I did say at the end that I agree with the legislation. I just think that the principal of forcing people to do things will meet the reality of human nature sooner or later. you can want to do something for all the right reasons, but that doesn't mean it'll work

[year_x]

but I don't think its that kind of bloody-mindedness alone. its the idea that some organisation, some group of people, decide how it is best to live. How to eat, how to relax. Even the ethics about our relationships with other people. And that this can be forced on us. Like I say, I agree with a lot of these meddling pieces of legislation. But that is only because the right things are being forced on me: things I'd do anyway. Or want to. the principal of the thing is dubious, and I think people rebel because of that.