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- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:40:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.164047.11480@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec20.211114.3823@sequent.com> <1992Dec21.210708.17518@hpcvca.cv.hp.com>
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- In <1992Dec21.210708.17518@hpcvca.cv.hp.com> scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn) writes:
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- :dickwin@sequent.com (Dick Winningstad) writes:
- ::
- :: Again I would suggest that government can not do everything, and it
- :: should make some hard economic choices if it is determined that
- :: government can not fund all it wants to do. The government should not
- :: limit personal freedom in order to make its expenses lower.
-
- :Minor nit:
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- :It isn't *government* which is limiting personal freedoms in order to make
- :expenses lower; it's the *people*. The majority of people voted these
- :seatbelt, helmet, etc. laws into effect, in order to decrease *their*
- :costs.
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- In point of fact, few of these laws are voted in, they are made
- by appointed bureaucrats various regulatory agencies and the
- public rarely has an opportunity to vote on them.
-
- Bill
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