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Originally Posted by stevo
and the gov't is not there to serve you. It is there to protect you and your way of life. But the government can not do that alone, for the gov't is made of the people, by the people, and for the people as you so eloquently quoted. So it is up to the people to stand up when they are asked, without question.
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A citizen who does not question is a bad citizen.
The government and the way of life exist to serve the people. Insofar as the government and the way of life do not serve the people, they are not good.
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Originally Posted by stevo
That is why we have elected officials, so they can make those decisions for us.
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No. You elect officials so they can look into issues, and figure out what would be best. Ideally everyone would make those decisions, but that takes too much work.
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Originally Posted by stevo
It's called delegating. You can't have it both ways. You can't participate in the democratic process and when it doesn't work out the way you like you can't just go about refusing to follow the rules.
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There are rules, then there are the reasons behind the rules. When the rules cease to follow the reasons behind the rules, the rules should be opposed.