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To: freeus who wrote (131)	6/29/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Daniel W. Koehler	of 13056

freeus It's that same old public policy/common good argument. A LP friend of mine likes to recount the rationale for big government is that you must assume that the populace is overwhelmingly both stupid and dishonest. Then of course we need a big policeman to maintain order. My favorite Ayn Rand argument about "the common good" is that, to paraphrase, is an intellectual nullity having no objective meaning. Yet, talk to any Big Government advocate and you hear "common good" as the rationale for almost every incursion into individual rights. Sophistry! Daniel

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