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- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!statsci!statsci!klg
- From: klg@statsci.com (Kevin L. Gross)
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Message-ID: <klg.724966578@statsci>
- Keywords: Helmet Laws, Drug Laws, etc.
- Sender: usenet@statsci.com (Usenet News Account)
- Reply-To: klg@statsci.com (Kevin L. Gross)
- Organization: Statistical Sciences, Inc
- References: <1992Dec10.023007.16159@eskimo.com> <1992Dec11.164214.1141@tc.fluke.COM> <klg.724381009@statsci> <1992Dec16.173510.6862@tc.fluke.COM> <klg.724617851@statsci> <1992Dec19.014455.11049@tc.fluke.COM>
- Distribution: seattle
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:36:18 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- lowell@tc.fluke.COM (Lowell Skoog) writes:
-
- I ignored your point because it didn't seem relevant. You were
- talking about outlawing climbing. Nobody is talking about outlawing
- bicycling.
- The tendency to blow up a minor regulation like a helmet law into a
- major threat to liberty is what I called "civic claustrophobia".
- --Lowell Skoog
-
- Civic claustrophobia is *EXACTLY* what you have. You ignore points that
- *YOU* don't see as relevant. If it doesn't affect *YOU* directly, then you
- stick your head back into the sand. As long as you continue to percieve
- the world via shadows on the wall, then you will never see. Too bad.
- --
- -Kevin L. Gross klg@statsci.com Disclaim THIS:
- This message is protected under the 1st Amendment to the Constitution
- of the United States of America. I'm protected under the 4th, 5th, 9th
- and 14th Amendments among others, or at least I used to be.
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