Reply #254: Mmhhhmmm.

[beevul]

They often couch it in terms such as "uncivilized" too.

"People like that scare the crap out of me because given the opportunity they would be "benevolent despots" for "our own good"."


And I think thats really where the break is.

I think it breaks cleanly into two groups, no matter what the issue. (not that everyone neatly fits into either camp, )


One group that thinks, and rightly so, that nobody has better information with which to make decisions with than they themselves do as individuals,

And,

One group that can be distilled down to "its for your own good".

And the "its for your own good" camp plays all sorts of semantic games and casts all sorts of aspersions on those that disagree, in an effort to keep people from seeing it.

People that would rather try to control what appears on a television for everyone, rather than simply changing the channel - for example.