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Doug Hoffman: The Glenn Beck Candidate

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SixDegrees11/01/2009 12:46:46 pm PST

re: #239 MandyManners

I disagree. We are not made for the state. The state is made for us.

Untrue. It’s the state who decides, for example, the fate of a murderer - not the victim’s family. And to revisit one of my earlier examples, if a child is murdered by their parent’s withholding of proper medical care, or is threatened by such action, the state’s authority clearly trumps the individual, not the other way ‘round.

Again, I think you’re confusing two separate issues: the fact that the state holds ultimate authority, and precisely where the line between state and individual action gets drawn.