tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10325967.post8940949429889605659..comments2023-08-09T09:44:13.292-04:00Comments on Reality by Evidence: Zygotes are Human Too?Jerry Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05466226925773904805noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10325967.post-14608257118357885792009-04-27T19:51:00.000-04:002009-04-27T19:51:00.000-04:00Well, since this country was founded on the "ideol...Well, since this country was founded on the "ideology" of personal freedom, and since most people enjoy having personal freedom, I am in favor of any ideology that allows for the greatest amount of personal freedom. Bush's ideology restricted personal liberties in favor of a moral imperative belonging mostly to the Christian Right. Obama is not basing his ideology, if you insist, on any group's Jerry Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05466226925773904805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10325967.post-11490151124657282132009-04-27T16:24:00.000-04:002009-04-27T16:24:00.000-04:00Even Wikipedia will correctly tell you that "Impli...Even Wikipedia will correctly tell you that "Implicitly every political tendency entails an ideology." The very idea that it is in the public interest, or the interest of good governance, to allow people in a given circumstance the freedom to choose what is "right" for them, or even that "right" is the sort of thing susceptible to subjective determination, are ideas that form part of - you Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173070488995439763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10325967.post-22806790814469780722009-04-27T15:29:00.000-04:002009-04-27T15:29:00.000-04:00An ideology is a strongly-held belief system that ...An ideology is a strongly-held belief system that becomes a political agenda. Bush had an ideology. Obama does not because he is allowing people the freedom to choose what is right for them based on their own sense of morality, not his.<br /><br />Regardless of how you justify outlawing abortion, the fact remains that by doing so you are restricting the rights of women who want to have one. And Jerry Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05466226925773904805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10325967.post-1518132791942065512009-04-27T12:33:00.000-04:002009-04-27T12:33:00.000-04:00I’m not sure whether you realize that your views a...I’m not sure whether you realize that your views about how the president ought to be doing his job, what serves human interests, etc., constitute an ideology. President Obama is not placing human interests above ideology. He is simply acting in accordance with an ideology that incorporates a different vision from his predecessor of what constitutes human interest.<br /><br />No one believes Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173070488995439763noreply@blogger.com