Why the US can't be trusted

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You portrayed your position represented a refuge of sanity, thereby making the clear implication that opposing positions were its converse.

You are now putting words in my mouth that I never said. There is no clear implication of anything other than I think opposing positions are wrong.

Good. Saying one feels "sick" is a common way to express minor mental anguish... as in, "I feel sick... I didn't make the half-price sale at Nordstroms."

I am very sorry that you equate toys with freedom. It continues to show me that you discount at your peril the freedoms you enjoy. It makes me sad that you might toss it aside and not see it as valuable.

That is very interesting. I am a public person in my town so many know me or know of me. I suppose that your reticence in allowing your real email address to become known has some arcane electronic basis. To me, if I were worried, I'd change my ISP frequently.

Well, I do think it odd that anyone would prefer fruit over chocolate. However, in this case we can only purchase one container and have to share it.

I do see that you losing your right to privacy is an inherent danger and I would call out to you on a trail if you were headed over a cliff.

I had to look up your weird word to make sure I got it right. Yes, it is a charitable and even an altruistic reasoning based on agape.

I see. Most people say they are independent and free... but it is interesting to see how they compromise themselves.

In America, "freedom" is a weird word.

Do you think that somewhere else it is not, then?

Piffka, I don't think I did. You did in fact describe your position as sanity and this does hold an implication for the opposite position Piffka. But like the "sick" thing Piffka I am going to let it go.

I suppose I can chalk this up to you being far more accepting of being called "sick" than I would have imagined. Either way, I do not mind, you can call me "spanky" too. But I did not equate toys with freedom, you will not find a single instance where I do so... I made a comparison between me giving up something that is none of your business (I say this in respect to what vested interest you ahve in my mere position and not a "mind your own business" hostility) and wondered why you should care if it doesn't affect you. Let's see if I can make it clear through satire:
[satire] If it does not affect you, what business of yours is it?
Wether it's toys or personal information how is it your business? I am not equating the two but illustrating situations that I think are my personal decisions and if it doesn't affect you I am nonplussed at your position. Since you claim that whether or not it affects you my choices in regard to what information I would give up bother you I am asking what basis you have to intrude on my personal decision. Why do you interject yourself into this freedom of mine if it does not affect you? [/satire] I don't really care too much heck people get all up in my business anytime, such is human interaction, but I think that illustrates a point. <smiles> My retincence is so I do not have to make changes. Nope, remember we agreed on a hypothetical in which my decision and preference does not affect any laws or policies, you said it bothered you merely that I held the positioons, not because you would have to share them (which would be a really understandable factor in bothering you). Ok, this is interesting what danger does it represent to me (remember, not to you)? I suspect the dangers are contingient on me sharing your position and your values and if so that's kinda like me telling girls that there is great danger in lying with men because I find lying with men to be an unattractive scenario. 'twould be a wee bit of projecting. Piffka, people can say you are "compromising" your freedoms too. IMO it's a patronizing (or matronizing) assumption that I am "compromising". Different strokes, I want different things than you. Who said I was compromising? Certainly not me, if I want to do something. Perhaps still weird but less weird nearly everywhere I have lived. In America it's frequently a euphemism for "what I want". And you can see that here, what I want is different from what you want but you characterize your wishes as "freedom" and mine as "compromising freedom". I'm not compromising my freedom Piffka, I am exercising my freedom to think differently than you Piffka, my freedom to come to different conclusions and my freedom to make different choices about my own life than would you.

I would oppose a fingerprint database that was used outside the criminal justice system.

Piffka wrote:

I would oppose a fingerprint database that was used outside the criminal justice system.

What about one that is used exclusively by the criminal justice system but that collates fingerprints that are not exclusively from convicted criminals?

and mine