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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
yes, you could say that, but wouldn't you rather have that than war and brute force?
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As long as people are free, yes. But when people are oppressed, then what?
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plus, even if that was the generally accepted agreement, you still had the people who were in it for the art and expression and contributed tons to humanity.
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I agree. But what if those same artists etc had been around anyway? And what if their artistic freedom had been greater, if they hadn't been chained by restraint to some limited ideological agenda? What works we should have had then, my friend, what works indeed!
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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
like all things there's more than one side to the story, and both have negative and positive aspects
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Agreed.