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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I didn't say that. I said it's dishonest for the minority to speak as if it speaks for the majority.
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wouldn't one person speaking for a group of people be considered a minority speaking for the majority?
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Sit down with maybe a dozen of your closest, conservative friends and ask them to hash out what the US would look like if we only had private schools, only had private roads, only had private fire and police protection, only had private science and art, only had to trust food and drug manufacturers to self-regulate when it came to quality, only had maybe 1 or 2 mega corporations from which to get any kind of news and information, only had as much internet as our providers want us to have, etc.
Small government sounds good when you think the government only ever fucks up, but the truth is that most things fuck up, be they public or private. I can't even begin to list the unbelievable market failures in the history of our country, let alone the history of mankind. And bigger still, I can't even begin to describe what could have happened in the US had it not been for government looking out for people..
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There is one huge gaping flaw in your theory though. When 'people' screw something up, they have to suffer the consequences. When government screws up, we have to suffer the consequences. In our naivete of 'trusting' the government, we've let them build in their own protections and safeguards from any repercussions or consequences of their screw ups, but someone has to pay a consequence when they make financial errors. It's certainly not them. Small governments have less chance to screw things up. Large bulky beauracracies have way too many points of failure that you and I will have to suffer from.
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