Comments on: Freedom https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/14/freedom/ Wed, 16 May 2012 16:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Equisetum https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/14/freedom/#comment-15771 Wed, 16 May 2012 16:32:19 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3470#comment-15771

For some reason “freedom” often seems to mean “my right to make you do things my way!

Another entry from the Republican Dictionary:

Richard Mourdock . . . told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd this morning, among other things, “I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.” —src

]]> By: Art https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/14/freedom/#comment-15770 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:45:40 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3470#comment-15770 Freedom, according to many on the right, includes the right to buy hazardous products, contaminated food, and to be treated like dirt as you work yourself to death making a wage that won’t keep you fed, clothed or housed. Freedom for the ‘job creator’ is the ability to screw workers over. Freedom for the worker is the right to take the raw deal, or lay down and die.

]]> By: Peter https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/14/freedom/#comment-15769 Tue, 15 May 2012 09:50:33 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3470#comment-15769 For some reason “freedom” often seems to mean “my right to make you do things my way!

]]> By: Russell https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/14/freedom/#comment-15768 Mon, 14 May 2012 21:33:11 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3470#comment-15768 Perhaps the three largest issues of individual freedom in the US this past decade have been abortion, gay marriage, and the government’s power to torture. I have little patience for those who make “freedom” into a shibboleth, while fighting against it on the seminal issues.

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