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To: Tomalak
Why can't you understand that if people can't control their own behaviour, the government will do it for them?

Why don't you understand that you're advocating giving the government the power to control things which aren't necessary for good governance?

73 posted on 08/02/2002 8:21:05 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Why don't you understand that you're advocating giving the government the power to control things which aren't necessary for good governance?

Name one post in which I have advocated any increase in government power in this debate.

75 posted on 08/02/2002 8:44:22 AM PDT by Tomalak
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Why don't you understand that you're advocating giving the government the power to control things which aren't necessary for good governance?

Exhibit A of my contention above: "In fact, almost every time a moral issue is brought up on a thread, some libertarians leap to the presumption that traditional morality implies the laws to enforce it. "

Tomalak hasn't argued in favor of expanded government power at all. Yet for some reason you leap to the conclusion that he must be advocating that, presumably based on his advocacy of moral restraint.

78 posted on 08/02/2002 9:03:58 AM PDT by Snuffington
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