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How do you turn " more than none" into "all"?
Fancy trick, that!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 06:28:42 AM EST
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You appear to argue they should all have their freedom to choose what to wear should be limited because they might have it compromised by people around them.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 06:40:36 AM EST
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Whereas having it compromised by the state is okay.

Because the only "community" the French state recognizes is itself - no subcommunity is allowed.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 06:51:45 AM EST
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Yup. Which makes the French just as deluded as the British or the Americans or whatever, and just as unable to recognise it.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 06:53:59 AM EST
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As Wittgestein said "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world".

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 06:56:18 AM EST
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it makes us as deluded, yes, but not unable to recognise it. We do recognise it, and have made it a conscious, explicit choice, and we're not happy when others are trying to impose their own deluded choices on us when we're reasonably happy with our own, by telling us we're deluded and failing and worse.

Can't you see the difference? I'm not making any comment about other countries' choices, just supporting those made in France.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 07:35:18 AM EST
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Jerome a Paris:I'm not making any comment about other countries' choices, just supporting those made in France.

i am probably misunderstanding your point here.  but there is absolutely nothing wrong with commenting on the policies of other countries, especially important ones like France, when one feels that they are deeply unjust.  otherwise, only citizens of that country would be allowed to criticize it.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 08:21:50 AM EST
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and that fact is overwhelmingly supported in France.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 07:35:57 AM EST
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