Freedoms great so long as you agree with those in charge

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#311214 23-Dec-2023 15:55

This might seem familiar to some you - can't beat a nice bit of repression -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/2023-governments-climate-crisis-persecute-activists-silenced

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#3175057 23-Dec-2023 17:22

Article: Most people would like to believe they’d have stood up against the homophobia of 1980s Britain – yet, by 1987, only 11% of the British public believed same-sex relations to be “not wrong at all”.

Same sex relations in England between over 21s became legal in 1967. Climate polls in UK show somewhere round 70% of the electorate see climate change as a serious threat and somewhere around 20% see climate change as an emergency situation. What are the figures for New Zealand?

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#3175136 24-Dec-2023 08:42

IMHO it just shows you can't change peoples views through legislation. Views change through discussion, consideration of various views, thought.

No idea idea about figures, hopefully high, but I guess a lot come under the usual 'yes, of course the future is important, yes we do need to change, just so long as its not inconvenient for me.'

And a lot politicians are in big business pocket anyway...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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