09-06-2010, 09:01 AM
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MURICAN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Virginia
Posts: 5,136
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Originally Posted by thekremlin
I think you're both missing the point. It doesn't matter who is more benevolent. The point is that individuals should not be asked to be benevolent, because quite frankly, they won't. A succesful society will be one in which people who help "the tribe" will be rewarded... and the inventor of the iPhone gets paid the big bucks because he has invented something that everyone wants. No one in this equation is being a nice guy, but everyone gets what they want. The point that FC always misses, though, is the causality: he thinks just because someone gets paid for something, it is a good thing they are doing. This would be true in a perfect world but to think it is true in this one means you think that there is no friction in government. I don't think anyone thinks that.
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I'm not arguing all the time.
Just most of it.
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The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
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