RE: Banning the Burqa?
May 14, 2012 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2012 at 12:26 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 12, 2012 at 10:46 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Banning the symptoms of social problems, instead of addressing the cause, never leads to progress.
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That depends on whether you think the cause is strengthened by the symptom and the baning of the symptom weakens the cause.
Baning the symptom may also be seen as progress if it is successful gambit to taunt the advocators of the cause to overreact and thus indirectly hurting the cause.
Baning the symptom may also be seen as progress if it establishes a precedent in the legal framework for broader charllenges to the cause.