Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Mr Gabb.

I have much respect for The Libertarian Alliance's Sean Gabb and even if my views on 'the sexualisation of children' are not the same as his - he makes a fine argument which we would all do well to take note of.

If I disagree with somebody but they argue well - I feel that their points of view deserve an airing:
'Authoritarian conservatives deceive themselves when they think the authorities are fundamentally on their side. The moment you ask for a control to be imposed, you put your trust in people you have never seen, who are not accountable to you, who probably do not share your own values, and who will, sooner or later, use the control you have demanded in ways that you find surprising or shocking. The attempted control of clothing, for example, will certainly be made an excuse for the police to drag little girls out of family picnics to photograph the clothes they are wearing, or to measure their heels to see if they are a quarter of an inch too long. Anyone who dismisses this as an absurd claim has not been reading the newspapers. That is how the authorities behave. Even when it is not an abuse in itself, any law will be abused by them.'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8559534/Bailey-review-parents-must-not-be-ridiculed-for-complaining.html

Elephantine Tragedies.

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heartbreak-two-baby-elephants-die-34194833