"me" wrote in message
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> "Deep Freud Moors" wrote in
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> > > > Does this make the inhabitants of Paris 'less rich' somehow?
> > >
> > > Yes. Less freedom.
> > >
> >
> > What freedoms do Americans have that Europeans don't?
> >
> > (I have asked this question a number of times in usenet land, and never
> > gotten much of an answer)
>
> It's not an easy question. For one thing, the concepts of "freedom"
> aren't universal and involve alot of culture. If the declaration
> has any validity at all, it would be in terms of "rights". The
> US Constitution has a slightly odd feature which declares we have
> nonspecific rights. (10th amendment as I recall). So where as
> many (though not all) countries have protections for specific rights,
> human rights clauses, these kind of things, in theory, the US
> citizen has comparatively more rights because his list of rights is
> potentially endless.
>
> However, if one wants to discuss specific freedoms, probably the
> one that strikes me most often is the number of countries that all
> a fair amount of control over their press institutions. All sorts of
> things one "can't print" in various countries. I also understand
> one can't insult a civil servant in Germany. I suspect the freedom
> of speech clause would probably prevent such a law here.
So - You've got the freedom to insult someone ? - Great !
And they, obviously, have the freedom to carry a gun :-)
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