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<blockquote data-quote="rambot" data-source="post: 76295481" data-attributes="member: 145797"><p>Here's the thing about those laws though. Singapore is a pristine city and the residents are proud of it (and they should be). I travelled there BRIEFLY. It's awesome.</p><p>Yes there rules are CRAZY heavy handed but guess what? They developed from a culture that prefers "order" to "chaos" (because true freedom is chaos). Are they reasonable? I'd argue some are not reasonable. But if the public at large supports the rules because they want their city to look like that, then they value the FREEDOM of a clean, ordered city.</p><p></p><p>In one of your previous posts you alluded to a "degrees of freedom" kinda concept and I agree. I think individuals and societies flourish when freedom "with fences" is the prevailing attitude. The unadulterated freedom that some/many Americans are pursuing with such rigor does NOT, I think, increase the quality of where you are living. In fact, I see it is a pretty juvenile understanding of "freedom".</p><p></p><p>Not only that, as a Christian it makes NO sense to me that they would pursue OR encourage unadulterated freedom given that God himself makes the case for "freedom with fences".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rambot, post: 76295481, member: 145797"] Here's the thing about those laws though. Singapore is a pristine city and the residents are proud of it (and they should be). I travelled there BRIEFLY. It's awesome. Yes there rules are CRAZY heavy handed but guess what? They developed from a culture that prefers "order" to "chaos" (because true freedom is chaos). Are they reasonable? I'd argue some are not reasonable. But if the public at large supports the rules because they want their city to look like that, then they value the FREEDOM of a clean, ordered city. In one of your previous posts you alluded to a "degrees of freedom" kinda concept and I agree. I think individuals and societies flourish when freedom "with fences" is the prevailing attitude. The unadulterated freedom that some/many Americans are pursuing with such rigor does NOT, I think, increase the quality of where you are living. In fact, I see it is a pretty juvenile understanding of "freedom". Not only that, as a Christian it makes NO sense to me that they would pursue OR encourage unadulterated freedom given that God himself makes the case for "freedom with fences". [/QUOTE]
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