On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:24:43 GMT, Palindrome wrote:
>Cynic wrote:
>
> My son was refused the sale of hot-glue
>> sticks when he was 15 on the grounds of a completely fictitious risk.
>
>I've snipped the rest because your statement above accepts the point
>that I have been trying to make. The law is routinely used to ban
>things even though they have not been proven to be a risk.
I *know* it is. That's what I'm complaining about!
And I do not believe it is as trivial as you are making out. You may
think that it doesn't matter at all if a few harmless people who
collected kp lost their families or were driven to ruin or suicide,
because they brought the consequences onto themselves. Just as other
people in another time did not think it mattered if a few people were
killed because they had the wrong political view, or the wrong
religion. After all, only really stupid people would risk doing
anything that might be considered pro-communist, and it's no great
loss to prohibit communist thoughts. And what possible inconvenience
is caused to any right-thinking person by being prohibited from
considering that the Earth is not the center of the Universe? I mean,
knowing how harsh the Inquisition treats transgressors, anyone stupid
enough to flout the Church doctrine deserves all they get. And there
were far higher priorities than freedom of speech. Right?
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Cynic
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