Comments on: Mistrust of Individual Decision-Making http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/mistrust_of_ind.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/mistrust_of_ind.html/comment-page-1#comment-1217 Matt Wed, 25 May 2005 09:01:35 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/05/mistrust_of_ind.html#comment-1217 <p>The fact that "privacy" is code for abortion, "women" is code for abortion, "choice" is code for abortion (well, that one's not concealed anymore, but still...the word used to mean something much broader), and "tolerance" is code for "agreeing with us" feels very much like a deliberate attempt by the political class to turn near-universal (at least in America) values into wedge issues, and put themselves on the rhetorically stronger side. Hell, I'm for all of those things, but (although I oppose legal prohibition of it...mostly on the grounds of a belief in _meaningful_ privacy rights) I'm against abortion.</p> <p>Depending on who Dave considers to be "the real Left", he may be completely right or completely nuts. There certainly are a fair number of people in this society who fit his description, and virtually all of the Left's rhetoric in my lifetime has been cribbed from their playbook, if not actually dictated by them...which makes their influence massively disproportionate to their numbers. But to assert that most (or even many) of the people who think, act, and vote according to the Left's ideas necessarily subscribe to that nihlist worldview is, I think, delusional.</p> The fact that “privacy” is code for abortion, “women” is code for abortion, “choice” is code for abortion (well, that one’s not concealed anymore, but still…the word used to mean something much broader), and “tolerance” is code for “agreeing with us” feels very much like a deliberate attempt by the political class to turn near-universal (at least in America) values into wedge issues, and put themselves on the rhetorically stronger side. Hell, I’m for all of those things, but (although I oppose legal prohibition of it…mostly on the grounds of a belief in _meaningful_ privacy rights) I’m against abortion.

Depending on who Dave considers to be “the real Left”, he may be completely right or completely nuts. There certainly are a fair number of people in this society who fit his description, and virtually all of the Left’s rhetoric in my lifetime has been cribbed from their playbook, if not actually dictated by them…which makes their influence massively disproportionate to their numbers. But to assert that most (or even many) of the people who think, act, and vote according to the Left’s ideas necessarily subscribe to that nihlist worldview is, I think, delusional.

]]> By: Dave Schuler http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/mistrust_of_ind.html/comment-page-1#comment-1216 Dave Schuler Tue, 24 May 2005 15:23:24 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/05/mistrust_of_ind.html#comment-1216 <p>I think you'll find that the real Left doesn't give a damn about abortion. They do want to destroy the existing order and weakening the traditional family and sex roles are a good start to that end.</p> I think you’ll find that the real Left doesn’t give a damn about abortion. They do want to destroy the existing order and weakening the traditional family and sex roles are a good start to that end.

]]> By: Void Where Prohibited http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/05/mistrust_of_ind.html/comment-page-1#comment-1218 Void Where Prohibited Tue, 24 May 2005 14:49:29 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/05/mistrust_of_ind.html#comment-1218 <strong>I Believe ....</strong> Link: Kim du Toit - Daily Rant. After reading this at Kim du Toits site today I was compelled to comment. I Believe ….

Link: Kim du Toit – Daily Rant. After reading this at Kim du Toits site today I was compelled to comment.

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