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Tova:
I was speaking of 'freedom to.' I suspect Cornelius was as well.
Cornelius:
Exactly.
Besides, if there is no freedom from, is there really freedom to? If, for instance, there is the freedom to carry a gun, and that makes it so that you are on your best behaviour on the off chance someone might take exception to something you say, and go for theirs: is it not so, that the freedom to (have a gun), takes away the freedom from (fear of lethal violence), and hence, the freedom to (speak freely)?
I'm just picking this example, as the result of a "polite society" is often used as an argument in favour of bearing arms. To me, however, that's not so much a polite, as a frightened society - which can only come to grief.
Tova:
I wonder what Gabriel Garcia Marquez would think to know that the title “Love in the Time of Cholera” would go on to inspire millions of COVID-19 headlines. :roll:
Morituri:
Every time I read about the 'progress' the late Pablo Escobar's herd of hippopotami are making in taking over most of the rivers of Colombia (and now expanding into neighboring Venezuela and Brazil) I keep thinking....
Hippopotami are edible, and a lot of hungry people live there.... but the darn things are an order of magnitude more dangerous than any livestock we've ever raised so far. Still, one day, some town or village that can't fish those rivers any more is going to be desperate enough to say, "challenge accepted." Setting up those pens and slaughterhouses is going to be a real adventure.
Maybe someone ought to publish a hippopotamus cookbook to start gradually infiltrating the idea into the culture.....
Tova:
I read the 'know your meme' entry for the 'literally no one:' meme, and for the first time, I finished feeling more confused than before deciding to look it up.
It made some kind of vague sense before, and now it makes no sense to me at all.
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