Reply #77: Um, sure? [View All]

[Dastard Stepchild]

I think what you are asking is why should we stick our noses in the business of others. A question that I have often asked as well. I once had a friend tell me that she thought she was becoming Libertarian because they were so less willing to assert personal opinion as a guiding political framework. Except that the belief that a person should have the freedom to do what they want is, in fact, a personal opinion that guides that particular political framework.

So then I stopped worrying about it and accepted that I believe that there is no such thing as the truly objective, nor will there ever be a political framework that is truly value-free. No policy, no party, no doctrine, no process is exempt from the heavy hand of values, norms, mores, beliefs and opinions. Makes the process lengthy, messy and sometimes irritating beyond all belief, but it is what it is.

And I like your sig line. I use that quoate as my email sig line. That Gandhi!