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Originally Posted by willravel
As for individual freedoms.... socialism is not standing in the way of free speech, free religion, free press, freedom to assemble, freedom to arms, freedom from military quarter, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, freedom from giving self incriminating testimony, freedom to have fair trials, etc. The only real restriction is that you only have multimillionaires instead of multibillionaires with the benefit of no starvation or poverty. I'd hardly call that a loss of freedom.
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Yeah, I'm not getting the whole "loss of freedom" thing (except as an ideology). What does that *really* mean? Can someone give me a concrete example of loss of freedom in Canada? Scandinavia? Last I checked, average citizens weren't feeling terribly oppressed here in Iceland. We've got all the freedoms stated above, and we've even got some millionaire/billionaire types floating around (not that I like them, but they have the right to exist and accrue money in this country). It's not as if one country MUST be 100% anything... nor should it. Iceland does fairly well with a balance between socialism and capitalism, I think, though of course it's not perfect.