Posted by: Aadisht on: August 21, 2009
Supporting freedom of speech and expression is a bit of a spectrum. On one end there is the complete commitment to free speech, consequences to anybody be damned. On the other end there is North Korea. In between, there’s the hypocritical commitment to free speech in Indian politics where Shashi Tharoor will criticise Modi banning [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: December 18, 2008
Masabi has a sooper post up about the ill-conceived Small Change petition.
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 14, 2007
Haven’t thought this through, really, but here’s the funda: For two thousand years, the Jews were refugees from the promised land. They were persecuted all across Europe, repeatedly expelled by various monarchs, segregated, and ultimately faced genocide (through the Russian pogroms or the German Holocaust). Then they made it to America, where the American Constitution [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 25, 2007
Speaking against the decriminalisation of gay sex, Singapore MP Thio Li-Ann says: Consent to harmful acts is no defence – otherwise, our strong anti-drug laws must fall as it cannot co-exist with letting in recreational drugs as a matter of personal lifestyle choice [..] (via) Exactly. The next time you abuse libertarians for being idiots [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 13, 2007
The FGB writes about Dalit participation in the UP elections, and makes an excellent point: There is nothing radical being said here. I am just advocating equality. The politicians and the armchair economists and political theorists on the other hand are always lobbying for equalisation. But the most important paragraph is this one: Instead we [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 19, 2006
Over the last few days, the comments in my controversial, disgust-inducing post have moved from outrage to debate. People who came in appalled at my use of such a crude analogy have begun to see the point behind the analogy, even if they don’t agree with it: that your body is as much your own [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 17, 2006
Now that everyone is done being outraged about my language, can we step back and take a look at the actual argument, please? Thank you. I first thought of making this post a week or more ago, when I first read the original comment. The post I wrote in response was what I felt immediately [...]