The Political Map, (was Re: FTC online workshop on privacy)

[Bill Frantz]

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


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