[LINK] the myth of government censorship

[Deus Ex Machina]

hi

if you had bothered to read the rest of my post you would have found
that you have just said the same thing I did.

Vic

Bernard Robertson-Dunn [brd at austarmetro.com.au] wrote:
> Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> > 
> > Sam Hinton [sam.hinton at canberra.edu.au] wrote:
> > > On 2/4/03 4:38 PM, "Deus Ex Machina" <vicc at cia.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > To some degree, control can be seen as a necessary life process.
> > > Without control, there'd be anarchy.  It's the glue that holds
> > > society together.
> 
> > no its not. what holds society together is choice.
> 
> I beg to differ.
> 
> Society is "held together" because its citizens are prepared a) to be
> tolerant and b) to accept a reduction of choice through peer pressure and
> formal laws.
> 
> When I drive down the street I have lost the right to drive on the wrong
> side of the road and I am tolerant of other users at intersections and
> traffic jams. Society works on the same principle writ large.
> 
> Conversly, society falls apart when people become intolerant and refuse to
> behaviou according to society's norms.
> 
> Disclaimer: This is my opinion, I can't prove it.
> 
> -- 
> What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of
> frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is
> the first law of nature.
> -- Voltaire
> 
> Regards
> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Canberra Australia
> brd at austarmetro.com.au
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