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Old 03-28-2005, 04:27 PM   #17 (permalink)
alansmithee
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Originally Posted by Manx
Sorry alansmithee, but no. You are forgetting the primary difference between what you call the moral right and the amoral left:

The right wants everyone to do what they want. The left wants each of us to make our own choices.

This is evidenced in almost every issue that the right views as an "attack" on their philosophy. Of course it is an "attack" on their philosophy: their philosophy is one of exerting control over other people - when you try to do that, you're going to get push back.

The moral right and amoral left, as you put it, are not equivalent in the respect that you would like to believe.

I would dispute that claim. The left desire to control what people can and cannot do just as much as the right. Gun control is just one issue, the left wants to limit people's legal right to own firearms. They don't want people to make their own choice about government ownership, they want to ban guns.

Both sides have ideas of what they think should and shouldn't be allowed. Both sides also seek to control people into doing and not doing what they believe to be proper and improper, respectively. To think otherwise is silly. Both sides have philosophies that are about control. Both sides push back.

As a small aside, that's why I personally think that debating the tactics of one side or the other is ridiculous, because both sides use the same tactics. To fail to see that shows blindness to reality, and bias that frequently makes much debate degenerate into slander. IMO, it's much more important to discuss the validity of being on one side or the other of an issue, without resorting to identifying that side as belonging to a certain belief system. If your point cannot be made without mentioning that the left or right holds that view, you probably don't have a significant point in the first place.
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