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From: ec120bgt@sdcc3.UUCP (ANDREW VARE)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Definitions: Right vs. Conservative
Message-ID: <2873@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-May-85 20:16:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 25 20:16:08 1985
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Summary: We all know the legal system lags social development by about 5-10 years, so perhaps social equality refers to the type of equality presently striven for, and legal equality the lagged acceptance

In article <1340060@acf4.UUCP>, mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
> 
> >/* cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) /  3:49 pm  May  3, 1985 */
> 
> > . . . Many also are
> >irritated with the tendency of some libertarians to support both
> >*social* equality, as well as *legal* equality to (take your pick)
> >homosexuals, drug dealers, atheists.
> 
> What do you mean by social equality as opposed to legal equality?
> 
> 						Mike Sykora

We all know that our legal system lags development of social ideas
by several years, so perhaps this is the reference he's hinting at.
What's socially acceptable now may be viewed as such in 5 or 7 years
by the courts.
						Andrew T. Vare