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To: MD Expat in PA
The pure libertarian view... is that we all have unlimited rights to live and do as we choose as free and responsible adults, fully responsible and accountable for our own personal actions and decision, both positive and negative up until the point that my or your right to live as we choose and our actions infringes upon my or your or someone else’s right to do the very same.

Ah, and there's the rub, isn't it? You run with your artificial, uninformed presumption that there is a cut-and-dry differentiation between non-infringing actions and infringing actions. But it is not that cut-and-dry, except in your own selfish value judgements.

What if I point an unloaded handgun at you? Is there any right of yours that is infringed? What if I show you that the gun is unloaded?

Your response is that you are threatened; a feeling, while no actual physical harm is done - moreover, no actual physical harm is even possible. But you would be correct. The pointing of a gun, even unloaded, at someone is a threatening gesture, by societal standards.

And yet you would deny the FEELINGS of others who feel just as threatened, and provably, justifiably so, by societal poisons like "Lady GaGa."

78 posted on 05/01/2012 3:35:19 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude
and yet you would deny the FEELINGS of others who feel just as threatened, and provably, justifiably so, by societal poisons like "Lady GaGa."

Really? Really? So Lady GaGa is barging into your home in the middle of the night and under threat of bodily harm, forcing you to listen to her music? She is forcing you to listen to only radio stations that play her “music”, forcing you to watch MTV? She has reprogrammed your car radio and CD player so that it plays nothing but Lady GaGa? She’s hacked into your credit card and downloaded her songs to your I-pod against your will? She is forcing you to spend your hard earned money and forcing you to attend her concerts against your will?

Somehow I’ve been able to remain Lady GaGa free despite it all her threats and the weight of her brutal force. There is such a thing as an off switch and you might want to learn how they work and there is also such a thing as, “you don’t like it, don’t listen to it.”

I like all kinds and types of music BTW and will even admit that I even like a few of Lady GaGa’s songs that I’ve heard.

On the other hand, I really like and prefer classical music and am a big fan of Mauler and Wagner. So I guess that makes me anti-Semitic?

There is such a thing as a grip; I really suggest you get one.

79 posted on 05/01/2012 4:02:01 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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