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To: Cacique
Read much WWII history? You sound like a Nazi.

In your world, does the state exist to serve the individual, or does the individual exist to serve the state?

41 posted on 05/07/2006 4:10:35 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Petronski
I know more that you think. I am an individualist. However, the individual bears responsibility for his actions if he lives in a societal context. No society can be purely libertarian. There are always collective responsibilities of citizens in an organized society. Paying taxes, obeying laws, serving in defense of one's country etc.. The state exists to serve society first, then the indivdual, in that order. A state that would pander to every whim of individuals and allow total freedom of individuals to do whatever they wanted is not a state, or rather is a state of anarchy. If you wish to live in total freedom and bear no repsonsibility for your actions move to a deserted island away from civilisation.



49 posted on 05/07/2006 4:24:31 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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