(sorry for the earlier accidental repost of Marcus' post) Like Marcus, I don't want to start major postings on liberty vs. metrication, so here is my brief response to his brief post.
>However, I also believe that *collective* rights at times could and should >"supersede" at sorts the *individual* rights without being necessarily >draconian! This illustrates a key reason why we cannot see eye-to-eye. I do not believe such a thing as "collective rights" even exist. I believe rights reside solely in individuals. >Again, the testimony of tons of countries that did it prove it beyond any >reasonable doubt, despite the disgruntled "customers" and "pain"! I'll bet those disgruntled customers would disagree. >IMHO, however, wisdom dictates that on occasion certain concerted efforts >would get things done much more quickly and efficiently, among other >advantages, provided (obviously) there was reasonable general support by >the society for that! I could possibly AGREE with this. However, efficiently destroying individual rights is not something I can support. In other words: since I consider individual rights (individual freedom) to be the most important aspect of society, it trumps "efficiency" in my book. My greetings to you, also, Marcus. I still owe you a reply to a thread we started before Christmas -- I'll get to it one of these days! Jim Elwell
