17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, Al Thompson wrote:
If strong government resulted in liberty and freedom, then the most intrusive, all-encompassing governments would result in its citizens having the most liberty. Is this the case? I would look at the (former) Soviet Union, Iran, Cuba, East Germany, etc., for your answer.
This is an example of reasoning by extremes, which always becomes reductio ad absurdum. Unrestricted individual freedom leads to unrestricted freedom of `private' corporations. Private corporations uncurbed by society's law are autarkies: internally totalitarian, externally predatory, as amoral as amoebas. Is this the shape of the future you seek? Charles Bell