Good for Each-Good for All?
I have met and seen so many straw men and non-sequiturs and broken some things (windows or logics?) in the discussions with the Indian Libertarians that I thought it is about time to give them one back.
They are very fond of pointing out; when their individual liberty is in danger and most of the time, I have no problems with it. After all, so many times I have written, it is my blog, my freedom what I want to write here.
Till I saw this at Desipundit:
“I fully support female foeticide (or any other foeticide) on the grounds of individual liberty.”
My answer is, if you are such a great champion of ‘individual’ liberty, why, go and live in a cave, individually. You affect no one and no one affects you.
However, if you have the need to live in a society and you do not want to live in a cave, then please remember, what is good for one individual may not be good for all, as a society.
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posted by Mridula at 3:42 PM
5 Comments:
liberty and freedom are never absolute...my freedom to move my feast stops at your nose...similarly the feotus has her rights...not to be discriminated on the basis of her sex...in the name of personal liberty u cannot kill her...liberty doesnot give any one right to discriminate...abortions can be justified on ground on individual liberty but not abortions motivated by gender of the foetus
Mridula,
I totally agree with you. Sherriff has it right when he says "abortions can be justified on ground on individual liberty but not abortions motivated by gender of the foetus."
It is only the rich and the privaleged who argue and espouse Libertarainsms because they stand the most to benefit from it.
I'm an ardent capitalist and I wonder if people actually read Adam Smith. Because if they do they'd find that Smith suggests 1) giving back to society is what lets capitalism survive 2)Profit-seeking motives and ccompassion are not divorced from each other; in-fact they go hand-in-hand.
I find it pitiful that some justify their bigotry by claiming to be proponents of philosophies that are diametrically opposite to their facade of openmindedness.
Do they not realize they are fools, or has the adulation of a thousand fools made them believe they are King (Nothing)?
As for their command over the English language, what good is all that flowery language, when you can't differentiate between need-based abortion and gender-specific foeticide?
Good going Mridula - always a pleasure to watch you thrash the wussy fake anarchist brigade.
Sherrif, Continental Drifts and Cow, as ?! said at desipundit, the position has become a L word just like ...
my 2 cents
http://swarangal.blogspot.com/2006/01/life-and-liberty.html
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