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Re: Number 4

Posted by Lateralus on 2010-June-11 21:35:32 EDT, Friday
In reply to Re: Number 4 posted by Dante on 2010-June-11 19:33:42 EDT, Friday
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Good post. Indeed, I don't buy into socialism (of any type) for the same reason I don't buy into libertarianism or anarchy--human beings are too selfish and apathetic to make it work properly. Extremes are rarely effective. The best of all possible worlds, as in so many things, seems to be a balanced approach that weighs the value of the individual against the need for a state. The recent oil spill demonstrates nothing if not that corporations are incapable of self-regulating. The size of a gov't seems ultimately irrelevant in comparison to its effectiveness, but there is a point at which a gov't becomes so small that it might as well not exist at all. It has to be strong enough to suppress internal dissent, enforce the laws it passes and protect its borders from invasion. Any gov't unable to do at least those three things is no gov't at all.

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