[Gllug] Greenhouse emissions (was Geforce2)

[Bruce Richardson]

Harry wrote:
> Multiple choice 
> The guy in the cell knows where the 10000 bomb is complete with detonator. 
It goes off in 24 hours. What do > you do??? 
> A. Have a cup of tea and a chat. 
> B. Tell him you cannot harm him but really want to know where its at. 
> C. You will tell his mother if he won't co-operate. 
> D. Torture him. 
Harry, all this implies that there is no coalface of liberty and 
democracy.  That is not true.  When rights and freedoms are ignored, bad 
things follow.  Events away from battlefronts are just as crucial to 
human lives, not least because they can affect the likelihood of future 
battles.
If you can say "we'll ignore the law in this case because *we* know it is 
right" then you have no law, just a comforting lie.  Real-life events 
that are as neatly packaged as your example are rare while the less 
dramatic exigencies of democratic social life are ever-present.

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Bruce

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