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Awara1984 Side Hero Username: Awara1984 Post Number: 4640 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 125.16.29.3 Rating: N/A |
If the individual is protected, all collectives of individuals will automatically get protection to do what they collectively will to do – the only limit being that they cannot, in the process, curtail any other individual's or group's rights. | ||
Awara1984 Side Hero Username: Awara1984 Post Number: 4639 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 125.16.29.3 Rating: N/A |
Today's illiberal climate is the result of this failure of our "liberal" elite to defend liberalism. If sundry caste and Hindu fringe groups are now running riot in some places it is because they have realised that they too can play the game of "injured sentiments". They are trying to do what the "liberals" encouraged minority and caste groups to do for over six decades - claim hurt feelings and assert the right to shut someone else up and ensure that the law and order machinery does not act against these groups. Now, everyone can do the same damage. | ||
Awara1984 Side Hero Username: Awara1984 Post Number: 4638 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 125.16.29.3 Rating: N/A |
Instead of emphasising the rule of law, it converted the state into a form of private property whose resources could be commandeered for favouring underprivileged groups through freebies. The first job of the state is to provide "public goods” that all have an equal right to enjoy – which means ensuring effective policing, law and order, a fair and quick justice delivery system, quality public education and health services. But our Left emphasised private goods (subsidies for food, fertiliser and fuel to the undeserving, job reservations for powerful pressure groups, et al). Little wonder, it has no moral courage to stand up to those who threaten free speech. The impartial law and order machinery that can guarantee free speech does not exist. The state has been well and truly subverted and almost made the private property of various ruling families at centre and states. | ||
Awara1984 Side Hero Username: Awara1984 Post Number: 4637 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 125.16.29.3 Rating: N/A |
The reason why we have become an illiberal society is that our intellectual class does not have the cojones to call a spade a spade and fight all kinds of illiberalism. If your liberality is selective, it will not survive.. | ||
Awara1984 Side Hero Username: Awara1984 Post Number: 4636 Registered: 12-2010 Posted From: 125.16.29.3 Rating: N/A |
http://m.firstpost.com/ideas/illiberal-india-why-the-only-mi nority-we-need-to-protect-is-the-minority-of-one-2453650.htm l |