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Entry: Down the Memory Hole Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/down_the_memory_hole#29977 Post contents: Something which I only find in conservatism (and untamed in libertarianism) is the thought that not every evil need be addressed by a law and enforcement. Ought we have shot segregationists? No, but there were laws against murder that should be enforced, and there was the "equal" part of separate but equal (e.g. use the same quizzes to qualify voting for everyone - I think it would be an improvement). Where the neo-cons and liberals agree is that anything they think evil - Iran or smoking must result in a law at its puritanical worst to address the issue. I can call the "Jim Crow" laws immoral, but unleashing a bigger leviathan to eat the smaller has resulted in greater evils. Including the destruction of many of our cities with "white flight" - not giving the natural integration time to occur. Forcing it negated it, and added the absurdity of black students being bussed from a local black school to a remote one. Abortion is a holocaust, but the few who actually do violence against it are condemned. And I don't think that voting to have someone with a badge do the identical act by proxy is necessarily right. If something like the Abortion Holocaust isn't the subject of violent action, then segregation also ought not be. But in either case, some states will be evil. And so will some people. The conservative choice is to let them be evil as the contrary is - to use the recent Narnia film - to summon the White Witch to overthrow the Telmarines - it would work but would unleash a greater evil. Sent at: 2008 12 01