[MD] A bright note

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
... along with sanctioning such biological values as 
anything-goes-marriages, legalized drugs and public nudity.

[Arlo]
Yeah, people are too stupid and need you to control their behavior, 
Platt. Legalized drugs? You mean like cigarettes, alcohol and the 
shelves of pharmaceuticals available at my local Wal-Mart? Public 
nudity? Right, women's bodies are evil and dirty (and the property of 
men) and they need you to protect them so they won't be raped if they 
reveal too much skin. Marriage? Of course, freedom only means freedom 
to be like Platt, how silly of me to have forgotten that.

Far be it from me to expect a mature society to base its laws on 
reason and not demogoguery and fear rhetoric. Far be it from me to 
expect a civil society to base its "nudity" laws on medical or valid 
social concerns demonstrated through reason rather than some 
anti-intellectual prudery. Far be it from me to expect a civil people 
to realize that consenting adults should be free to define their own 
unions, unless a direct and valid concern can be shown as to how such 
unions would destroy society, rather than on the sophomoric rhetoric 
of talk-radio. Far be it from me to think that Pirsig's own 
peyote-realized metaphysics should open the eyes of a civil society 
to rethink it unintellectual, and corporate sponsored, hypocrisy 
regarding peyote, marijuana and other "drugs".

Yeah, I know that's all waaaaay to much to ask, its so much easier to 
just say "drugs are bad, mmkay? gays are bad, mmkay? boobs are bad, mmkay?"

[John]
Is "sanctioning" the logical equivalent to  "refusing to 
coerce"?  Cuz if it is, I think you and NAP just collided.

[Arlo]
John, John, John. It's only "coercion" when the "left" does it. When 
the right does it, its moral. You may have missed the part where 
"coercion" is actually defined as being "leftist", therefore by 
definition, coercion from the right simply can not exist. So we use 
some newspeak and call it "sanctioning" and pat our moral selves on 
the back for how righteous we are.