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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: gg cox who wrote (4971)2/26/2008 4:56:13 PM
From: TimF   of 42652
 
"Used by the commons"??

Now you seem to be defining the commons as "the people". These definitions just keep shifting.

Something that is just out there available for everyone and not broken down to discrete bits is "the commons". Health care (except containing epidemics and such) doesn't work that way.

But its not worth arguing forever over this. If you really want to call it commons your going to call it commons.

Than so what? How does that advance your argument? If you change the meaning of a word, than anything that word would have added to the argument is limited to the new meaning. If the argument doesn't hold with other words containing the same meaning you want to give "the commons" then it won't hold if you just substitute "the commons" for those words.
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