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2008-04-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Left's moral-equivalent-of-war-mongering

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Posted by Mike 2008-04-25 09:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 thats a good takeaway:

Environmentalism is fundamentally authoritarian.

Environmentalists want to decree changes without reference to a vote or a court or anything other than the will of their chosen technocratic elite.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-25 10:01|| 2008-04-25 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Environmentalism is the communist wolf in sheep's clothing.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-25 10:27|| 2008-04-25 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no such thing as the moral equivalent of war

Having Biochemistry lecture at 8 am was the moral equivalent of war. But maybe that was just me.

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-25 11:19|| 2008-04-25 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 What's war the moral equivalent of?

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-25 12:22|| 2008-04-25 12:22|| Front Page Top

#5 What's war the moral equivalent of?

Peace at any price, perhaps.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-25 13:13|| 2008-04-25 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 It is fundamentally authoritarian, which might explain why so many environmentalists envy Chinas ability to ban plastic bags without reference to a vote or a court or anything other than the will of the Chinas technocratic rulers.

Which also explains why it isn't that big a step from the environmental bandwagon to the environmental cattle-car.

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-25 13:54|| 2008-04-25 13:54|| Front Page Top

#7 My local library and at least 1 supermarket, encourages re-use of plastic bags by providing containers where these can be taken up for re-use. I am a pathological blue-boxer.

Posted by Marilyn Omerese3326 2008-04-25 14:02|| 2008-04-25 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 "Peace is the ideal we infer from the fact that there have been occasional lulls between wars."

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-04-25 14:12|| 2008-04-25 14:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Last Sunday, during the run-up to the Mariners ball game the radio station KOMO had an interview with a guy that said we had gone past the point of reason with this environmental crap; it was costing people their jobs and serious dollars.
He spoke rationally for a couple of minutes but then the she-host couldn't cut to commercial fast enough. For the record, and if there are any KOMO-weasels out there, I only listen to your crappy station no more than 162 days a year.

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-25 15:04|| 2008-04-25 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 KOMO... From the station name I infer that must be in some socialist paradise, right? Seattle?

Posted by twobyfour 2008-04-25 17:59|| 2008-04-25 17:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Since most of the left are moral conservatives, can they have moral equivalents to anything? The left tends to think in terms of surrender, appeasement, and losing with regards to war it is tough to think of moral equivalents to war w/regards to the left.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-04-25 18:04|| 2008-04-25 18:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Since most of the left are moral conservatives

???

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-25 18:34|| 2008-04-25 18:34|| Front Page Top

#13 I think he may mean morally constipated, Frank.

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