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To: Thane_Banquo
If we didn't want government regulating morality, we would have to get rid of government altogether.

What? That doesn't even make sense. Government's main job is to protect private property.

124 posted on 06/26/2003 7:41:23 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Say Hey! Hey! Damn Yankee!")
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To: Dan from Michigan
Government's main job is to protect private property.

It is? Where'd that come from?

The job of government is to promote the common good, or the "general welfare" as it's termed in the Constitution.

Why? The whole is greater than its parts. Therefore the common good is greater than the good for any single citizen.

138 posted on 06/26/2003 7:48:29 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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