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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: Solon who wrote (24631)8/24/2001 5:12:11 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Nobody in a community should need to live in fear for their families.

That's a nice ideal.

But if you take it seriously, you have to arrest and jail for life everybody who has ever thought about robbing, or assaulting, or otherwise inflicting violence on anybody in their community.

I suppose it could be done. I wouldn't want to live in such a society.

We have a trade off between living in security and restrictions on individual liberty. The US may not have reached the perfect balance, but IMO it's closer than any other country with such a heterogenous population has ever achieved.
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