re: #689 Spenser (with an S)

Lincoln, either. Interesting discussion, we can either say those were large flaws in great men that we now say were worth it or they were a wartime necessity and might be needed again. Hmmm.

I think without question SOME limitations on “freedom” were necessary to win, say, World War II. For one thing, you had to have mass conscription; that’s some pretty serious freedom-constraint right there. Nor could you have a situation in which journalists were perfectly free to blabber “FLASH! Cross-channel invasion will land on Normandy Beaches early morning June 6th! Exclusive!”.