>>Well, there's a market for child porn too.
Do we just allow anything because there's a "market" for it?

How about cannibal restaurants?
There might be enough "demand" for a niche operator.
Let the Market decide.<<

No Shockadelic, we don't allow those things because they are illegal. Cannibal restaurants and retail distribution of paedophilic pornography are clearly illegal and should be treated the same way as other forms of black market commerce like drug dealing and slave trading. I agree with you completely that an entirely free market unfettered by any governmental constraints is a recipe for wholesale immorality. Although I must say I'm very surprised to see you expressing such a distinctly left-wing sentiment: who are you and what have you done with the real Shockadelic?

Cheers,

Tony

Tony,
Not so,in areas with weak or nonexistent government you tend to see crime and vice contained in certain parts of the community, "Red Light Districts" and slums. Modernising states protect people from the consequences of their actions, especially bad people, notice that outlaws in 19th century Australia tended to die violent deaths in their early to mid 20's, Ned Kelly was 25, Ben Hall 28, Mad Dog Morgan made it to 35 and Jack Donahue 26. What's more every kind of vice is freely available anyway,state or no, Armin Miewes the Rotenburg Cannibal had several people contact him with a view to allowing him to cannibalise them and he eventually carried out his plan with a willing partner.
It's always the same excuse from statists, because of a very small number of very disturbed people we need top down social management and taxation for all.

Susie,
I am also an atheist and no racist.

I wonder just how far you are willing to let cultural diversity go.

There are some weird cultural practices in use around an I certainly do not want them here.

How about you list some you would not allow here. Or are you happy for 'anything goes'.

Suzi,

<<Cultural diversity is the spice of life>>

LOL

Multiculturalism has moved way beyond being a nice little condiment you might (choose to) add for a bit of flavoring. It is now a set recipe that requires all dishes to include the same ingredients.


I mentioned on another thread that a friend of mine recently went for a job with a govt department.The interviewing panel consisted of three persons who at the outset loudly announced themselves of as representatives of their multiculturally designated minority groups. They were very keen to know if he was of Aboriginal descent or spoke another language other than English at home.It became clear to my friend that unless he genuflected at the MC stations-of-the-cross he wasn't even going to get to first base.

One of the marketing ploys for MC is that it promotes diversity which encourages different solutions to problems But cultural diversity does not correlate with the ability to think innovatively or come up with novel solutions. And MC as it is practiced in Oz encourages superficial differentiation and groupism with same-ethicity groups networking to promote their own.

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Tony,

<<we don't allow ...Cannibal restaurants and retail distribution of paedophilic pornography [because they are] illegal>>

I was going to respond to that: WHAT A DILL!.
But, no, I wont write that 'cause it might be seen as offensive so I will just write LOL.

So what do we do if the Human Rights and (More)Equal (than some) Rights Commission (Germane Greer like) decrees tomorrow that it is improper or down-NON-right chauvinist --and evidence of our imperialist-orientalist-racist tendencies -- to even think of imposing our standards on the adherents of religion X?

Ah! Sorry to have bothered you Tony--I've got it!
The answer has come to me,all our police "service" will do is impose the law S-E-L-E-C-T-I-V-E-L-Y --as it often does now.

Cheers!

Some here do not seem to realise that the way moslems slaughter animals,
except for pointing them to Mecca, is similar to the way they were slaughtered
here and I presume in Europe generally.
The throat was cut and they were hung up to bleed out.

When stun guns became available they were then used.
Just like the eating of pig meat their slaughtering techniques are
still stuck in the middle ages.
Like many other Islamic practises they cannot and will not change.

I think Rechub will be able to confirm my understanding of slaughtering.

Suseonline misquotes the trite cliche, 'Variety is the spice of life'.

It is sloganeering in lieu of argument, facts and proof. It is the stuff of political correctness. That is typical for the left 'Progressives' whose hobby is social re-engineering. But they never imagine that there could be any negative consequences of their tampering. Nor do they want to know of any.

However where migrants are concerned, the UK's House of Lords Standing Committee that examined immigration could not find that the UK benefited overall economically from having immigrants. The truth is that migration is only good for migrants.

It is time that there was some honesty on migration and the pros and cons, and the electorate was given the choice of supporting diversity for the sake of diversity or not. It is not sufficient to claim that there are more choice in restaurants, even if that were only obtainable by bringing in the ethnic cooks, which it is not.

Certainly the public needs better information than the one-sided promotion by the ABC and SBS of endless diversity and overpopulation by migration. Value for money for the millions of taxpayers $$ poured into the publicly-funded national broadcasters should deliver independence and balance, not a re-hash of idealism from the online Green-Left newsletters, drafted in a fog of half-baked Marxism and weed.

We can do better than cliches.