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Old 03-03-11, 02:56 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens View Post
Well, even with disfunctional societies, I favor democracy. If, like pre-Nazi Germany, they democratically choose fascists, then there will be trouble, but that's just the price of freedom. It's like Tiger Blood, you either have it or you don't.
For ourselves, that may be so. But for certain others - if others vote for personell causing troubles not onply to them but also to us, then I fail to see the need that we should accept that just becasue the othewrs have elected them.

In the end it comes down to the endless debate I had with Steve two months ago or so, about the tolerance-paradoxon: that tolerance needs limits in that it should not toleratew the intolerant,. for this wpould mean that the intolerant wipe out the tolerant ones, and tolerance with them. It is the same with freedom.
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