That article makes me love canada even more.
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Originally posted by Thunderball@Oct 14 2004, 12:52 AM
It is also officially "Peace, Order and Good Government."
They go on some tangents, but I'm afraid to say they make a point. How come its alright for minorities to protect their culture, but when the "majority" wants to protect theirs, they are religious zealots, or right wing ignorant rednecks?
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What are they protecting their "culture" from? If I wanted to I could avoid premarital sex, pornography, abortion, gay people and their evil ways, etc. easily. What is stopping me from thriving in my culture of intolerance? The difference is that the people who do not believe in these same values are prohibited from fully living their lives according to their own values.
People who try and force their religious views and beliefs as the only way to live a good life ARE zealots. Maybe we disagree but I think that personal liberty being sacrificed because of a portion (even if it is a majority, which for most of these issues I seriously doubt) wants to dictate the actions of others is wrong. These people are also regarded as ignorant rednecks because for the most part they refuse to accept that there are people who do not believe what they do and should be able to live their lives accordingly.
Disclaimer: I am not stating that people should be allowed absolute freedom or that I love the idea of killing babies. I just believe that personal freedoms should be allowed up and until they impinge on the freedoms of another person. I just think its ridiculous to feel impinged upon over something like a couple of guys marrying eachother. I'm also not trying to say that the majority shouldn't rule... but it shouldn't be a tyranny of the majority, and logic needs to be used.
I find them to actually be equivalent in meaning. Do you guys find them to mean the same things as well?
I agree, they appear pretty similar. (If you mean what I think you mean, which compares the american one and the expanded canadian one)