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Posted by Nilet on Tue Jun 3 20:54:56 2008, in response to Re: Union Station Photo Rights Issue Gets POLITICAL, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jun 3 12:20:48 2008.  Why does it have to be the most annoying liberal(s) taking up this fight?I'd be happy to have some conservative allies join the fight against photographer harassment. Unfortunately, I can't find any. That's understandable; the idea that individuals have inherent rights that government must respect is a liberal idea. It would be a walking contradiction for a conservative to support personal freedoms. This is an ideal conservative cause, an overzealous government trampling on individual rights. No, no, no. You're conflating different issues. Thinking of one scale from "left" to "right" is far too oversimplified and doesn't even come close to doing justice to the variety of viewpoints people hold. A somewhat better idea would be to imagine two scales from "left" to "right," a social scale and an economic scale. On the economic scale, someone towards the "right" would favor little government intervention in economic affairs, low taxes, and few government programs while someone to the "left" would favor greater government regulation, higher taxes, and more social programs. On the social scale, someone towards the "right" would favor greater government control over peoples' personal lives, whether it be (allegedly) for "security," "morality," or in the name of enforcing a particular religion while someone to the "left" would favor greater individual freedoms and civil liberties. The term "conservative," as is commonly used (to refer to the current presidential administration and people who think like them) refers to people who are to the right of the social and economic scales. These are the sort of people who would want to restrict photography— it's a personal freedom, and therefore a "left-wing" idea. Photographers' rights are a personal freedom, and therefore supporters thereof would fall on the left of the social scale. Position on the economic scale is largely irrelevant. Therefore, such people could range from economic left-social left (liberals) to economic right-social left, or people who would be called "libertarians." Admittedly, many of the people who support photographers' rights seem to be towards the left of the economic scale as well. I have some ideas as to why there are relatively few libertarians supporting photographers, but I don't see the need to be even more provocative than I have been already. |
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