"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."
This sounds absurd. McDonalds is not dangerous. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:14 AM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> 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. > > > 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:331183 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
