(July 22, 2013 at 2:30 pm)Red Celt Wrote: e.g. If you're against abortions, don't have one. You have no right to tell other people that they can't have one. They're not infringing your freedoms, so don't attempt to infringe theirs.
Does this apply to, for example, gun ownership as well? I find that it's where the political line between liberals and libertarians* is usually drawn.
(*Although that term is pretty hazy here in the USA. I find that libertarians here fall into two groups-- those who are mostly liberal in their views --with exceptions like those noted above-- and those who are Republicans who dislike taxes and social programs even more than the typical Republican.)
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
