From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2004 - 12:50:48 GMT
DMB:
> Platt said:
> Unlike government, the market can't put a gun to your head to make you
> behave a certain way. Freedom means freedom from government coercion.
>
> dmb says:
> Right. Because the gun held to their heads was privately owned, all the
> slaves bought and sold in colonial America were actually quite free. And
> because these were not government guns, those shot in the head with them
> were not really dead. Your insight is sheer genius.
In case you missed it, this is the 21st century.
> Platt said:
> We already see the danger to freedom in threats by the FCC to censor Howard
> Stern and other avoidable "offensive" acts. The logical next step is to
> censor all criticisms of the government as detrimental to the public good.
> Scary stuff don't you think?.
>
> dmb says:
> And you're extremely well informed too. Clear Channel, the
> quasi-monopolistic media giant that also banned Lennon's "Imagine" for
> being too communist and the Dixie Chicks for criticizing Bush, was actually
> the one to can Howard Stern, not the FCC.
You also missed the FTC hearings in Congress and reports that the FTC is
targeting Stearn and other "shock jocks" with penalties against their
employers.
Your sarcastic, mean-spirited personal attacks ("Your insight is sheer
genius" and "You're extremely well informed too") are living testaments to
the truth of Pirsig's observation:
"There are so many kinds of problem people like Rigel around, he thought,
but the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals.
Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to
themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the morals to
make someone else look inferior and that way look better themselves. It
doesn't matter what the moral code is— religious morals, political morals,
racist morals, capitalist morals, feminist morals, hippie morals—they're
all the same. The moral codes change but the meanness and the egotism stay
the same." (Lila-7)
Platt
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