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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Tell us about the continuum, Old-T. I'd be interested. How much liberty are you willing to surrender for security? Where do we draw the line?
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Please don't sound patronizing. You know very well that any difficult trade is unlikely to have an overly simplistic "perfect answer". I'd suspect that kind of simplistic comment from some on here, but not you.
The minute you acknowledge that carrying a loaded shotgun onto a 747 isn't a good idea you have decided it isn't all-or-nothing. As to where it
should be, I don't know. But I do know it needs to be a discussion among the populous--something we seem to have forgotten how to do.
How much privacy are you willing to give up to keep illegal imigrants out?
How much screening to be safer in travel?
What's the ballance between "stretching the truth" in advertizing and "freedom of speach"?
I'll even throw in the anthrax question I asked earlier, but I don't think you answered. If you truly believe it's all or nothing, do you really believe I should have the libery to have my own personal chem bio weapons collection? Or do I onl ylose that right after killing a couple million folks?
When one person's "liberty" puts a lot of others in danger I do beieve there need to be limits applied. I also believe it's not obvious where to place the limits.