Thirteen, Richard K. Morgan
Curtailment of freedom is a powerful social tool and must be deployed as such, with wisdom and restraint. It is therefore vital to distinguish the genuine and the quite complex parameters of what is socially necessary, and the simplistic and emotive demands of a growing popular hysteria. Failure to make this distinction is likely to have unattractive consequences.
- Jacobsen Report
August 2091
p. 107
posted by Paul Hays at
2:08 PM
1 Comments:
Easier said than done.
Of course the statement is true. However, what criteria does one use to make the distinction between “the genuine and the quite complex parameters of what is socially necessary, and the simplistic and emotive demands of a growing popular hysteria?”
The line between these ideas is never clear, and the problem arises when we start judging each other for the judgment we place on others.
Furthermore, who gets to decide what is necessary and what is hysteria? Now that's an issue worth addressing.
Judge less not be judged…I always say.
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