On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:14 AM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are we, or are we not, a FREE country?
Without going into the details of this particular debate, the answer is: sort of free. We have more freedom than many places. We do not have complete freedom. There is a long list of things you can't do in this country as an individual or business, ranging from marrying whomever you want to selling sexually explicit material to minors to dumping nuclear waste in a playground. For myself, I'd say that McDonalds is more dangerous than gay marriage and teenagers with porn but probably less dangerous than nuclear waste at a playground. Which is not to say I support this particular law, but rather to point out that "we are a free country" is kind of an absurd statement. Maybe this particular law is dumb, but we have plenty of dumb laws out there and some that are probably even smart, all of which infringe upon our generic notion of freedom. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331044 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
