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>Do we have other ideas that are "okay" to express "merely personally"
>that we're violently opposed to the state expressing?
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>/jordan
Tons of them. Some people are religious, which is OK, but we support a secular state. Some people are _ir_religious; I don't think we want the state to attack religion. I have lots of string artistic views that I would not want the state to express or advocate--no "socialist expressionism" for me, and much as I like jazz, I would not want the state to denounce rap or rock as degenerate art. This is the core of liberalism, that we want the public power to be neutral on lots of things we hope the citizenry will develop diverse and contrary views on. You don't have to be a liberal to advocate this view: one hopes that if socialism is nonliberal, it will carry over this neutrality.
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