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To: neverdem
I showed you 3 examples where more population equaled more freedom. If you can't recall your own words, there isn't any purpose in continuing this discussion.

What? I gotta give you a list of all the ways your assertion can be proved wrong? People today have more freedom than they had 50, 100, 200, or 1000 years ago.

Sure 100 years ago children were allowed to work in factories, fathers were allowed to beat and molest their children without reprisal, and blacks were allowed to swing in trees...but most people don't apperciate those freedoms as much as the ones we enjoy today. Today people enjoy the reliogous, social, and economic freedom to travel almost anywhere in the world, read books online that were banned 50 years ago, and not be burned at the stake for practicing witchcraft.

I can think of a lot more freedoms that mandkind has secured for himself over the years. Could you please now give me some example of freedom that has been lost?

194 posted on 08/21/2004 6:56:59 PM PDT by Once-Ler (Proud Republican. and Bushbot.)
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To: Once-Ler
Could you please now give me some example of freedom that has been lost?

For someone that's been registered on this forum for almost five years, that's quite a statement. Virtually everything government does, other than when legislatures pass meaningless resolutions, infringes on someone's freedom from its power to issue and charge for licences, zoning laws, banning smoking in outdoor stadiums and bars, the hopeless war on drugs, alcohol's former prohibition, laws against gambling(but lotteries are OK), hate crimes, gun control, etc. I could go on and on.

Apparently, you don't believe in limited government. If a majority can be persuaded, then anything goes, no matter the true merits of the situation, or the rights of the minority.

You can have the last word.

195 posted on 08/21/2004 8:42:30 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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