> On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:58:14 -0500, Joseph Crowe
> sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>

>> Cyrus Afzali wrote:

>>> You may not think you are, but you certainly are since it's the policy
>>> throughout most of the states as well as the federal level. Since
>>> government is essentially the people, even those who disagree with it
>>> don't get a free pass from the stain.

>> Specious logic at best. Your argument rests on the assumption that
>> coerced domination lends legitimacy to government actions. To merely
>> assert that one is responsible for the actions of others because some
>> majority of "citizens" support a government does not carry a lot of
>> rational weight. This is the same "sins of their fathers" argument
>> that some folks use to support such concepts as reparations for
>> slavery(but only for a subset of those enslaved and only those
>> enslaved by private individuals). In a word, the concept of
>> government for the people, by the people and of the people is
>> an absurdly ludicrous concept. It simply does not exist.

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