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Old 10-09-2007, 01:41 AM
moorobot moorobot is offline
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Default Re: Do You Support the Civil Rights Act?

Conveniently you ignore the part about jobs, and the fact that people in dozens of countries have overcome difficult collective action problems to gain the freedom you are trivializing in the analogy.

We could give good reasons for showing why racism is incorrect and an unjust, but we could not give good reasons why someone enjoying a carpet is unjust and incorrect.

Almost nobody cares about the ability the freedom you are speaking about, while millions of people struggled for the freedoms I was speaking about. Your analogy illuminates how you see the world but does not illuminate the world itself. To think that someone would compare the freedom from racism with the freedom to defecate on somebody else's property is, quite frankly, both frightening and appalling.
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