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**DoctoBuntonTen** · 12-08-2006, 11:48 PM

And, of course, our democracy takes us into wars not many of us want. Democracy these days seems to be about finding ways to generate ever-greater consumerism and moral licence. (I shocked some students a while ago when I said that what people call freedom in moral terms was nothing more than licence to behave like stray dogs in the park. I can say that now that my misspent youth is so far in the past.) 'Democracy' and 'freedom' are terms used cynically and hypocritically to denounce any country which isn't like the USA or UK - but not those odious countries which, however, let us have bases and which co-operate in providing us with want we want. But anyway, I'd rather live in England than Sudan, Burma or Somalia. Churchill was right.

In Christ,

Andreas.

12-08-2006, 11:48 PM	#5
DoctoBuntonTen Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 501 Senior Member	And, of course, our democracy takes us into wars not many of us want. Democracy these days seems to be about finding ways to generate ever-greater consumerism and moral licence. (I shocked some students a while ago when I said that what people call freedom in moral terms was nothing more than licence to behave like stray dogs in the park. I can say that now that my misspent youth is so far in the past.) 'Democracy' and 'freedom' are terms used cynically and hypocritically to denounce any country which isn't like the USA or UK - but not those odious countries which, however, let us have bases and which co-operate in providing us with want we want. But anyway, I'd rather live in England than Sudan, Burma or Somalia. Churchill was right. In Christ, Andreas.
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