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# Instead of organising people from above, let us allow everyone to live as he wants;
Good idea! Maybe we should also be more sensitive to the rights and needs of, say, child molesters as well? After all, shouldn't each one make up their own mind about whether or not to abuse their children? Any 'suppression of freedom' is after all bad...

# Let us resist the politicisation of science and oppose the term "scientific consensus", which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority;
Yeah, let's also be wary of such 'freedom restricting' scientific theories like thermodynamics. If people would like to create or destroy energy, that should be their choice, not restricted by some freedom hating physicists with a totalitarian agenda. Remember, science is amusing theories about the world, there to delight and amaze us. They can however never be allowed to indicate there might be some limit to what we can and cannot do.

# Let us be humble but confident in the spontaneous evolution of human society. Let us trust its rationality and not try to slow it down or divert it in any direction;
Grraghghh! How do you think anything ever gets done? What the fuck is 'spontaneous evolution of human society'? Doesn't someone make some kind of decision about how to proceed at some point? How are unregulated decisions based on personal whim by those who can back it up financially not 'undemocratic'? And who selects these 'deciders'? Oh, wait, it happens 'spontaneously'...

# Let us not scare ourselves with catastrophic forecasts, or use them to defend and promote irrational interventions in human lives.
This applies to terrorism fears as well, I presume? Thinking about it, with that first blockquote above, maybe we should not restrict the ability of those called 'terrorists' in their pursuit of blown up buildings, infrastructure, and people? Is saving a few lives really worth the infringement on their 'freedom' to kill and maim?
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Jun 14th, 2007 at 06:41:00 AM EST
do you mind if I use (big) parts of it when I corsspost this stroy to dKos?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 14th, 2007 at 06:50:35 AM EST
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I would be honored and delighted.
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Jun 14th, 2007 at 08:03:06 AM EST
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