Daniel S. Wilkerson wrote:
> Consider the beauty of a fast and complex Irish ceili dance and how
> one clumsy beginner can easily break someone else's ankle, and you see
> that the very strict rules of that dance are necessary for the freedom
> to dance it without getting hurt.  No rules lead to "high school kids
> lean against one another and grope in the dark", which is only
> euphemistically called "dance". 

>From your analogy you have drawn the wrong conclusion.
The "freedom to dance a ceili without getting hurt" is not freedom.
Freedom is freedom to do the watusi, the shy tuna, the hip-o-crit,
the time warp, etc. etc... whatever your will.

-- 
John Porter

"It's turtles all the way down!"

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