tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post7077614304808505361..comments2023-04-11T09:46:53.479+00:00Comments on anticant's arena: What it was like....anticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-76189646033481232792009-10-12T22:01:03.459+00:002009-10-12T22:01:03.459+00:00Phil. what a thought!
A quota for blah blah blah....Phil. what a thought!<br /><br />A quota for blah blah blah.....<br /><br />PS the captcha reads 'spermo'<br /><br /><br />Says it all.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-21893130994097823462009-10-12T13:28:28.478+00:002009-10-12T13:28:28.478+00:00I agree with you, Jose. Any law that singles out r...I agree with you, Jose. Any law that singles out rather than generically “allowing for,” all groups, tends toward discrimination. For this reason I have always had a problem with the quota system in the US. This has been copied in Brazil for Federal Universities and has generated some good debate and little change. It is slowly being forgotten.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00162429603497870073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-2719815470963717032009-10-12T07:24:48.636+00:002009-10-12T07:24:48.636+00:00We don't live in a Libertarian society, unfort...We don't live in a Libertarian society, unfortunately - or even a libertarian-minded one. We live in an increasingly fussy, bossy, Nanny-Knows-Best society. Dismayingly, lots of people seem to like it.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-71584216342342462332009-10-12T06:51:17.843+00:002009-10-12T06:51:17.843+00:00Laws specifically relative to homosexuality are al...Laws specifically relative to homosexuality are also permissiveness. The laws should be made in a way that there does not exist the least hint of discrimination, this or perhaps adherence to Libertarian doctrines?Josehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15647938994078754298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-28250672399109985542009-10-11T21:17:54.238+00:002009-10-11T21:17:54.238+00:00Welcome aboard, Phil. I have often said that "...Welcome aboard, Phil. I have often said that "permissiveness" is a rubbish term because it wrongly assumes that some folk have the right - and often the duty - to give to, or withhold from, others permission over matters which are in fact none of their business.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-23260861812944111972009-10-11T20:38:16.604+00:002009-10-11T20:38:16.604+00:00Well, Anticant, one way of removing temptation to ...Well, Anticant, one way of removing temptation to do evil is to no longer consider it as such. Certainly, attraction between people of the same sex continues but, in the UK, it can't be considered temptation any more (thanks to the work of folks like you). The country I live in, Brazil, considers itself to be very sexually permissive (an authoritarian term I dislike) while retaining discriminatory laws and failing to recognize same sex unions. (BTW, I've changed my Blog identity from the phonetic Fiu in Portuguese to the English Phil).Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00162429603497870073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-18358707017508698792009-10-11T20:13:01.015+00:002009-10-11T20:13:01.015+00:00Jesus Christ...I wonder what went on in the toddle...Jesus Christ...I wonder what went on in the toddler-hood of Little Bush?Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-3481981409989460412009-10-11T14:33:32.945+00:002009-10-11T14:33:32.945+00:00Fiu, re your comment, Leo Abse - the reform Bill&#...Fiu, re your comment, Leo Abse - the reform Bill's main sponsor in the Commons - says in his memoir 'Private Member' that judging from a bizarre conversation he once had with Sir Cyril Osborne, "the curbs placed on his infantile masturbatory activities were so intimidating that he was thereafter compelled to protect himself from further danger by removing all temptation from the British scene. This was a formidable task." (!!)anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-16996210099982868912009-10-11T14:06:01.846+00:002009-10-11T14:06:01.846+00:00Very Anglo-Saxon attitudes altogether indeed! Wha...Very Anglo-Saxon attitudes altogether indeed! Whatever sort of a mish-mash we are there is progress nonetheless, it may be only a step-and-a-half for every one backward, but it proceeds. It is first and foremost a matter of loving the people closest to us regardless of 'opinions'. (I am more saintly by a factor of ten, on-line I mean, than in person....) <br /><br />Meanwhile, here, President Obama has been given his Nobel prize ahead of time, one supposes to prevent any mis-understandings later over 'still' being bogged in Afghanistan, or something:<br /><br />http://bodwyn.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/not-now-mr-president/<br /><br />Naturally, I am watching for the postman now myself (the Weblog Lit category!) even as we speak! I am not a Democrat but want very badly for the man to succeed, and this sort of thing is just putting absurd pressure on him. Somebody here said it's Swedea as dish out the science prizes...and the touchy-feely ones are left to the Norwegians. Seems a kind of a dig at THEM! <br /><br />Well, 'don't kiss AND tell!' as Baroness Thatcher said, or Bill Clinton or somebody?Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-56374517502473229422009-10-11T12:44:53.119+00:002009-10-11T12:44:53.119+00:00"...little self-control" (Godfrey Lagden..."...little self-control" (Godfrey Lagden) - I have often come accross this argument in one form or another which suggests that the proponent has such temptations but is "strong" enough to hold back. If they do not have such attractons they should not talk of superior self control and if they do have such thoughts then they themselves have "warped minds" and are "dirty minded." - Such poor logic would be laughable if it didn't represent such cruel represssion.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00162429603497870073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-57583485155467262652009-10-11T08:27:01.626+00:002009-10-11T08:27:01.626+00:00I must say here that I've just read, in the Ne...I must say here that I've just read, in the New York Times, that Barack Obama says he wants to end the discrimination that affects homosexuals in the American Army.<br /><br />Anglo-Saxons changing their attitudes?<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/us/politics/11speech.html?_r=1&hpJosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15647938994078754298noreply@blogger.com