Donal McEvoy wrote: "even if 'it is possible to agree on particular public projects despite disagreeing on a great many private ones', that would not mean we can _only_ agree on 'public projects' and never 'private ones', and therefore it would not show that seeking agreement on 'private ones' is 'anti-liberal'." What is illiberal is the attempt to present agreement on private projects as evidence for their being public. As is defenestration, but that was a different thread. Sincerely, Phil Enns Yogyakarta, Indonesia ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html