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To: Arthur McGowan
...an open society has no realistic choice but to concern itself with the harm that people do—not just to others, but to themselves. It has not only a right but a duty to do this.
8 posted on 09/24/2007 10:56:55 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie
...but to themselves.

Ah yes, the old "we are all wards of the State" mentality. No thanks. I prefer the promise of individual responsibility and freedom envisioned by the Founders to this implied framework of "slavery for all".

10 posted on 09/24/2007 11:03:21 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Wolfie

I fail to see wherein this is relevant.


12 posted on 09/24/2007 11:04:36 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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