Posts by Lilith __
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Legal Beagle: A matter of conscience, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I’m not sure how that is inconsistent with my view that the the common feature of things that are subject to conscience votes was not human rights, but morality.
I guess the word "morality" makes me uncomfortable because of its overuse by religious fundamentalists, where it means whatever they happen to believe. So I'm trying to find secular words and concepts that will do instead.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to David Haywood,
I have it on good (the best) authority that David Haywood said no such thing.
The medium has the message!
You may have been channelled…
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Eric Crampton,
If we’d temporarily hiked prices with a promise that they’d be back to normal the next week,
...then people probably would have panicked more than they were already, thinking the supply was about to run out. Those were horrible times, and even if someone was in a position to assure us of anything, we probably wouldn't have believed it.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Sacha,
Most Chch suburbs have a lot of infilling; and shoehorning the maximum number of townhouses into the minimum space is usual where an older house has been demolished. It'd be a shame if the Garden City ended up with no gardens, but I don't think we're all determined to have a quarter acre, either.
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Legal Beagle: A matter of conscience, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Wasn’t the legalisation of homosexuality put to a conscience vote?
Isn’t the common thread human rights (as someone else said above)?Not really. I say moral issues are the common thread.
Alcohol, gambling, Sunday trading, and the like aren’t really human rights in the sense of slavery, and discrimination against sexual orientation.
Yes…but isn’t your original point about how not all of the things that go to a conscience vote should go to a conscience vote? As society becomes more secular, we start thinking that issues like Sunday trading are fairly trivial, and that alcohol and gambling are matters for regulating rather than taking an absolute stance over.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
luxury-sized Lilith
Why thank you Joe. :-)
Thanks for the great shot, Kebabette. I know you've put a link, but would you like to post a few other Gap FIller pics here? Maybe a selection from their various events? This would be a great place to show them.
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Legal Beagle: A matter of conscience, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
From the perspective of an MP who opposes abortion, I’m pretty sure they view there opposition as ensuring that people can’t force their views on others
Wasn't the legalisation of homosexuality put to a conscience vote?
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Hebe,
Christchurch is the 21 century’s social laboratory. Let’s hope for the sake of we lab-rats that the experiments work.
Biting the experimenters is always an option.
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For maximum happiness, here are some cute dogs. From the street party.
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Glad you all like them :-)
<bows, narrowly avoiding banging heads with Jackson>
