I completely agree...

And each point of view deserves consideration and not out of hand dismissal based on whether one follows the '-D' god or the '-R' god....

Michale

JL

Oh I know... I was just being facetious to contrast and compare how many Weigantians ridicule the Right for being "against guvment"... :D

But Right (AND Left) are for guvment when their guy is POTUS and against guvment when the other Party's guy is POTUS...

:D

Michale

there are different types of government control, and various dimensions in which people believe that control should or should not be applied. lefty or liberal at least theoretically ought to refer to more permissiveness, while conservative or righty ought to refer to more central authority, but these distinctions have sort of been glossed over in our need for only two dichotomous poles.

in reality, people have a wide spectrum of beliefs depending on whether government control extends to moral and social domains, as opposed to economic and material domains. And either of those categories can be further divided into sub-categories depending on the type of social or economic control, and the extent to which the people should have direct voting access to said government powers. in other words, it's complicated.

JL

I thought you Lefties SUPPORTED the guvment??

And that it was those evil terrorist kidnapper arsonist Republicans that hated the guvment..

What gives, eh???

:D

Michale

And if, by accessing such data, it is proven that it could have prevented another 9/11 or saved a kidnap victim from rape and death???

That's the problem with such principles that involve other people??

Is your personal privacy worth a million innocent lives??

A thousand innocents??

A hundred innocents??

One innocent???

THAT is the question that needs to be asked...

And, more important.. Answered..

Michale