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Friday, October 08, 2004
Kerry's beliefs
Tonight during the presidential debate, John Kerry said that he opposes abortion as an article of faith but that he cannot impose that belief on others. I will respect liberals when they say such things on abortion or gay rights when they consistently demonstrate that they will not impose their beliefs on others when it comes to tax policy, environmental regulations or, in Canada, monopolistic, state-run health care.
Posted by Paul Tuns on October 8, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink
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I'll start respecting conservatives when they stop using category errors. And come to think of it, we have an election process to determine who's beliefs get imposed - that is your chance to have your beliefs sanctioned.
Posted by: Tom | 2004-10-08 9:23:01 PM
Imposition - well if you didn't vote for the governing party, and they govern as if you didn't exist, I guess their views are imposed on you. Ah, Canada and its zany tyranny of the plurality.
Posted by: Occam's Carbuncle | 2004-10-08 9:29:11 PM
Elections are one thing, but the power that the PMO wields is immoral. Too many decisions in Ottawa are shoved down the throats of all Canadians. Local representation needs to be restored so that each region can represent themselves as they wish.
Central planning was wrong for the Soviet Union, and it's wrong here.
Posted by: Joel | 2004-10-09 6:39:10 AM
Sen. Kerry also completely failed to answer the question. After all, it's one thing to say that you cannot ban abortion because you can't impose your beliefs on others (without a supermajority, presumably.) But he was also defending forcibly taking someone's money (by way of taxes) and making them pay for abortions at the same time, which is what makes it really incoherent.
If it's really about not forcing beliefs on each other, then he shouldn't be for forcing people to pay for things which they oppose.
Posted by: John Thacker | 2004-10-09 8:28:19 AM
Just before this post disappears into the aether, I would like to point out that the initial post, and every positive response is both irresponsible and unrealistic - federalism does not equal 'central planning', and our system of government wouldn't survive everyone determining what they'll allow their taxes to pay for. Again, the solution is the ballot box. You've got to argue your case and get people to vote for them.
If you truly find our country hopeless - move!
Posted by: Tom | 2004-10-11 6:29:41 PM
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