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Originally Posted by Reiver
If you want to eliminate the crimes, you need to eliminate the freedoms that allow someone to prepare for and commit the crimes. The cops can stop you whenever they want to. They can search your home whenever they want to. They can imprison you for thinking wrong.
I know most of this will fall upon deaf ears because a lot of you probably want to arrest the people who disagree with you on these forums... tough. We have freedom and we will protect it.
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Interesting post. It seems that often protecting one freedom that is supremely important to us means restricting one of more freedoms for others. Nearly all of us do this, me included. Then we argue over which freedom is more important, often confidently neglecting to mention that some freedoms are less important. To us. At this moment. About this issue. Often it comes down to freedom FROM one or more groups of people (whether or not they are in that group by birth, by choice, by necessity, or by circumstance). Again, I’m guilty. Probably you are, too, wherever you are on the political spectrum. Some are opposed to people groups they almost never see where they live and don’t need to worry about. Many are most opposed to the people who suffer from temptations from which they themselves are immune or who have problems they themselves don’t have.
I admit that I’m happy to live in a place where I’m safe, where beauty surrounds me, where there is easy access to the things I like to do, and where I have essentially no contact with the people who scare me. This leaves me free to pontificate with impunity about those unable to live here. Of course, I live alone, so I have to do it here.