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To: ninenot
the Government's most important interest is in promoting and maintaining right order

No, the government's most important (and, properly, sole) job is maintaining the peace by suppressing assault and fraud and adjudicating disputes in the absence of other resolution. Permitting it to select and enforce a "right order" over and above that is the route to utopian totalitarianism.

(Oh, and what's with the capitalization? I can't find anything in the list of noun capitalization rules to account for it, unless "Government" is the deity you worship -- which would be the natural corrolary to believing that it has the secret to the "right order".)

569 posted on 05/20/2004 9:28:38 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: steve-b
maintaining the peace by suppressing assault and fraud and adjudicating disputes in the absence of other resolution

You've done a reasonable job of defining Right Order.

Learn capitalization rules on your own.

573 posted on 05/20/2004 9:52:41 AM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, TomasTorquemadaGentlemen'sClub)
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