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Harming Oneself and Harming Other: What Should the Law Forbid?

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[sast89]

America needs intellectual conservatives like Scruton.

[jaaproos]

thanks for adding i was looking for this video for a while...

[efa0tz]

I am sceptical to everybody preaching "we western democracy, liberal, etc etc" when they built those "democracies" on plunder, colonialism, deceit and exploatation.

[johnsammyanfal]

'mental and spiritual harm'....sounds like Scruton is but one step away from advocating a Western type sharia theocracy of your own. Actually the USA Constitution is not primarily about liberty; but rather a road map to the pursuit of the 'good life'. Scruton is the logical conclusion of a modern neoconservative; defiantly defending the ruins of a civilisation that he has necessarily come to despise and externalising his anger against cultures he half understands.

[Samgurney88]

@Marcoz588 things and to try and dissect a fascinating issue myself, namely, how on earth it occurs that anybody acquires such a perverse world view and convinces anyone that it is intelligent. Thumbs up for your comment though, anyone who tries sincerely to follow reason I respect, but for that reason, I will only be honest about what I think. :)

[Samgurney88]

@Marcoz588 no support and therefore stop people taking drugs’, that ‘pornography is seriously addictive, more so than alcohol or perhaps cocaine and more damaging to society, and corrosive to the moral sensibilities’… is not going to be a frequent event. Of course, there is much to discuss and debate, and I would love a debate with Scruton to try and clear up the mess he has made of thinking about

[Samgurney88]

@Marcoz588 promoting libidinousness to small children in sexual education classes, that those in favour of decriminalising drugs are in favour not because of copious empirical research and rationality or even (as is admittedly more common) out of their own enjoyment of drugs which no earthly reason to be criminalised but instead, because they believe that ‘taking away support will teach people there is

[Samgurney88]

television is a corrupting force in society, that Islamic militancy should not be tolerated out of religious toleration (which must include religion’s duty to tolerate others), that the family is an important social value e.t.c. But, where I agree with him most, I disagree most with his ignorant and irrelevant treatment of the topic. That said, agreeing with a man who believes that our schools are

[Samgurney88]

@Marcoz588 My low estimation of his intelligence is less related to weather I agree with him or not, although inevitably there will be a reasonable degree of correlation. I consider myself ‘left wing’, although my honesty and love of reason and actual care for love, perhaps make me unwelcome amongst a doctrine of tremendous dogma, piety and often ludicrous indignation. I agree with him that the

[Samgurney88]

@Marcoz588 gestalt, nor any comprehension of the true relations of affairs of a given issue other than what others have said or written about it, viz. a viz. he speaks and sees through other thinker’s mouths and other thinker’s eyes and subsequently his dissections are bloody, tangled messes which makes everything look hideous, where a proper one would illuminate the beautiful truth.

[Samgurney88]

@Marcoz588 approach philosophical issues, has absolutely no merits as a thinker, only a commendable degree of erudition which can never compensate for even two minutes of clear thinking. Of course, I can understand how it may appear that he approaches things systematically and logically, especially with all his distinctions and dissections of other’s arguments, but in reality he has no perception of

[Samgurney88]

@Marcoz588 philosophical issues is cloaked in the same ‘properness’ and ‘orderliness’. I take no issue with cold frogs- Bertrand Russell was the coldest of them all and yet his scientific dissection of philosophical issues always had a clarity and tidiness in their execution and thus, when he erred, the his thought was naked and the point at which he erred clearly identifiable. Scruton, in his endeavour to