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To: JohnM who wrote (26784)	8/18/2006 9:19:59 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 543227

And some liberties are more important than other liberties. It's not a matter of which liberties are more important than others, it's who is restricting the liberty. The worst case is for the state to do so, whether through brutal tyranny or nannyism. If you think like a statist, then it's the job of the state to weigh the relative importance of various liberties and to establish criteria and mechanisms. If you think like a libertarian, the state just stays out of it other than to protect the state from outsiders and to protect citizens from loss of life, limb, and property at the hands of each other. So it's not about rank ordering liberties but rank ordering values to put liberty at the top. A majority of people would not put liberty at the top. Those that have other rankings fight among themselves to get government to weigh in their favor. Thata produces a vast and myriad-tentacled weight but little liberty. Sounds like 19th century liberalism to me. And with the same philosophical problems. Dunno what problems you have in mind. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

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