Timothy C. May wrote:
At 8:20 PM -0600 3/17/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
With the advent of technology, the balance of perceived social needs and government capabilities shifted radically, and it shifted away from the great freedoms of the past. The public perception of freedom now is that freedom is inherently dangerous and is a threat to the public itself.
What are these "great freedoms of the past"? Look to history.
'Freedom' has always been buggered by the 'Great Exception'. The GE generally rests on a foundation related to denying individuals the right to 'abuse' that freedom. Of course, the definition of abuse has always followed a course that might be compared to a mathematical relationship between the position of ladies hemlines and the number of denominations in the 'current' One True Religion. Freedom exists not so much in terms of the current/individual definition of freedom, but in the caliber of the weapon with which one defends their own definition of freedom. -- Toto "The Xenix Chainsaw Massacre" http://bureau42.base.org/public/xenix/xenbody.html