Comments on: Discuss: http://duelingbarstools.com/2010/07/discuss/ Brains, Heart, and Balls, for Individual Freedom. Tue, 22 May 2012 01:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: On Higher Education | Dueling Barstools http://duelingbarstools.com/2010/07/discuss/comment-page-1/#comment-2135 On Higher Education | Dueling Barstools Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:06:38 +0000 http://duelingbarstools.com/?p=1064#comment-2135 [...] interested in distilling key issues down to their core. I took a stab at this in July, when I wrote: I can’t spot a difference between the legal argument against gay marriage and the now [...] [...] interested in distilling key issues down to their core. I took a stab at this in July, when I wrote: I can’t spot a difference between the legal argument against gay marriage and the now [...]

]]> By: John David Galt http://duelingbarstools.com/2010/07/discuss/comment-page-1/#comment-1543 John David Galt Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:53:35 +0000 http://duelingbarstools.com/?p=1064#comment-1543 I can't resist playing devil's advocate. Politically, the 20th Century was overwhelmingly the century of ever-expanding nanny-statist government in the US, and most of the blame belongs to women voters. The suffragettes and the "temperance" (prohibition) movement were mostly the same people, and still largely are; one only has to go to a MADD or League of Women Voters meeting to see this. So while giving women the vote was superficially more "fair" than continuing to exclude them, it has resulted in some laws that, on net, have made it a very bad idea. Maybe the only way we can get back as much freedom as we had in 1900 is to take the vote away from women again. I hope I'm wrong, since it's unlikely to happen. I can’t resist playing devil’s advocate. Politically, the 20th Century was overwhelmingly the century of ever-expanding nanny-statist government in the US, and most of the blame belongs to women voters. The suffragettes and the “temperance” (prohibition) movement were mostly the same people, and still largely are; one only has to go to a MADD or League of Women Voters meeting to see this.

So while giving women the vote was superficially more “fair” than continuing to exclude them, it has resulted in some laws that, on net, have made it a very bad idea. Maybe the only way we can get back as much freedom as we had in 1900 is to take the vote away from women again.

I hope I’m wrong, since it’s unlikely to happen.

]]> By: Pila http://duelingbarstools.com/2010/07/discuss/comment-page-1/#comment-1520 Pila Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:02:09 +0000 http://duelingbarstools.com/?p=1064#comment-1520 Good post. Good post.

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