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OT: Human Rights Framework 5-May-2010 At 12:01:55 PM Hendo
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I’m enjoying playing with fire here but I should stop before people and their tents catch on fire.

So here are some concluding remarks.

Do you support the aboriginal intervention policy? If so is this a justification of racism?

If you don’t support it is it conceivable that a policy could be constructed that is considered racist by yourself or others in which you think the good outweighs the bad and you support it? If so is this a justification of racism?

If you answer yes to this it doesn’t mean you fall straight down a slippery slope. It does mean that there is conflict between sets of good ideas and sets of good intentions (here for example, avoiding further damage to aboriginals vs being proactive in helping the situation). People make different value judgements and I’m not sure you can outright say some are objectively evil, even some which appear fairly extreme. This might lead you to some understanding of where my position is.

As a conciliatory gesture here is a hypothetical that will make me think about my own position. Suppose on my trip to Europe next month I meet a beautiful young lady and we fall in love. We agree to come back to Australia, however she has a sibling she cares for with some permanent illness or disability. Due to this, this sibling will not be able to integrate properly into Australia and it would be a good idea to live in a part of Australia containing a reasonable number of other people from their home country. What am I to think about this? (Probably get real, no one is going to fall for you! :P)

In the end nobody has a complete set of perfect answers to these sorts of things. It is too complex and there are inbuilt contradictions in any case. However in the end you have to run with what you believe at the time and hope you don’t regret it later.

Anyway, I hope some people have found this worthwhile and I hope some people better understand and perhaps reconsidered their opinion of me.

Now back to my tent to see if it survived the fire and what mischief Eduardo has been up to in it.

Chow for now.

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