<div dir="ltr">Distrust for the Government is not unfounded. The first Clause of the Declaration of Independence explicitly says that if things get intolerable, you can leave, yet 70 years later, the North stopped the South from leaving. The Monroe Doctrine stated that we would repel European aggression attacking North, Central, or South America, yet when the Falkland Islands, just off Argentina's coast, was attacked by England, we took England's side.<div>/s/ Richard </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Richard Niederberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ladesigners@gmail.com" target="_blank">ladesigners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Rules? In a Knife Fight? No Rules!. The State draws its power from the Consent of the Governed, which can be withdrawn at any time, for any reason. Historically, by violent Revolution, when necessary. You've been warned!<div>/s/ Richard</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Stephen Litterst via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On 4/6/16 12:22 PM, Lou Poppler via Stagecraft wrote:<br>
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----- Randy Porter via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>What you don't understand is that by making a choice, the school is<br>
FORCING its view, as an instrument of the state. In essence decreeing<br>
that their choice is acceptable, even if it does make some people<br>
uncomfortable.<br>
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I don't see where there is any "FORCE".<br>
You seem to be saying that if even one person is uncomfortable, the show<br>
should not be allowed ?<br>
What about our duty to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the<br>
comfortable." ?<br>
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Our duty as artists is not the state's duty.<br>
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While there can be a long and lively debate about what the duty of the state actually *is*, I don't think you'd find many supporters of the viewpoint that the state should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Well, maybe comforting the afflicted should be in there...<br>
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