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Originally Posted by Mikesan
No one NEEDS 500 HP, but no one needs chocolate either. But both are an awful lot of fun. I prefer to live in a place where there are more choices, not fewer. And I really prefer to live in a place where people with differing values from mine do not get to decide how I should live.
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You know... Oliver Wendell Holmes said,
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
I think most people could agree to this proposition, even though it's not true as a matter of law. If you swing your fist at someone the right to do it actually ends before the other man's nose, because if you threaten someone so much that they think they could be hit it could be deemed assualt... the actual contact is the battery. (The quotation actually captures where assualt & battery meet).
Less people would agree with this statement, "I am all for 500 hp engines, as long as the people who use them re-route the exhaust into their cars so I don't have to breathe the wasteful emissions."
So, yeah, choices are great! But sometimes when choices effect others, the question of whether I have a choice or not of having to suffer the consequences of your choice becomes an issue.