Serenity AS Constitution?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 15:15
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tsk tsk. Fletch, Dreamtrove- You're both too bright to be engaging in trivial debate. Like many English words, "liberal" has multiple meanings.
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Free as in freedom, not beer.
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I apologzie for the OED comment, which was out of line, but I think also this may be one word where the word's meaning is different across the atlantic. Liberal to mean free just never showed up in my lifetime, my school studies, any dictionary or encyclopedia until someone posted it. I think it was you I was having the argument with and then Finn butted in. I don't remember and I can't find the thread now.
Anyway, at the time I thought that it was political spin to redefine to the word to claim freedom as belonging only to the political left, and I guess I still do. I guess my point, and I want to make it clear so that we don't continue this feud, is that 'liberal' as it opposes 'conservative' is generous and giving, as opposed to preverving and keeping. Conservative is not the opposite of freedom, which is my point, and the natural conclusion of liberal as the party of freedom.
As goes to the point of Kelo vs. the City of New London, which is what was at issue, the so called liberal judges of the supreme court did rule in favor of New London. I know it's not the proudest hour for liberals, esp. on the libertarian end of things, and I by no means are trying to dance around the fire and say look what you did! But, as re: Sam Alito, and the rightward shift of the court, the New London ruling is some sort of pro-govt. extreme leftism, as is the right to die ruling, maybe the court needs a rightward shift. What concerns me, the only thing that concerns me about Alito, is that the court maybe needs an anti-executive shift.
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