At 12:14 AM 5/23/96 -0400, Shabbir J. Safdar wrote:
There's actually an interesting parallel here. If you look at the Dworkin "ban pornography because speech is action" crowd, they often end up on the same side of things as the Christian Coalition "ban porn because it drives you to ungodly acts" crowd. They both happily support legislation that would ban such images. The left and the right move so far off the edges of the scales that they come around and meet each other on the same side of the issue.
This is because any analysis of political opinion that tries to reduce it to a one dimensional metric is ipso facto wrong. Two dimensions gives you a much better match. (Try personal freedom on one axis and economic freedom on the other.) I suspect the more dimensions you include, the better you analysis will be. Regards - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA