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To: Southack
Citizens in NAZI Germany were *mandated* to work certain hours on certain days. Those citizens were ordered to perform certain jobs. Those citizens were FORBIDDEN from possessing firearms. Those citizens were FORBIDDEN from buying and selling or otherwise trading with Jews. Jewish citizens in Germany were imprisoned and executed.

And that is exactly my point. While all of this was going on, your average German-on-the-street would have insisted that that Germany was a free country--and to complain that the laws deprived you of liberty was to advocate anarchy:

So long as you follow our society's rules, you are free to go anywhere and do anything.

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87 posted on 04/12/2003 1:05:14 PM PDT by zechariah (Dangerous Jesus Lover)
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To: zechariah

You clearly don't understand the phrase "mandated behavior", as in, you are ordered to perform certain actions, regardless of what you want.

A mandated behavior is something like forcing citizens to stand at attention and salute the Fuhrer every morning at 7 AM. Even if you just got off the night shift at 6:45 and can't bear to stand up for another moment, you'll go to jail if you don't stand and salute.

A non-mandated-behavior rule is something like declaring that driving in the left lane is approved for all northbound traffic. You are still free to go North, if you desire, but you will do so in the prescribed manner.

Yet in your sad, uneducated world-view, mandated and non-mandated behavioral rules are both equal, as in equally non-free.

Sigh. You just don't get the difference.

88 posted on 04/12/2003 1:13:12 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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