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To: TimF who wrote (477)	5/17/2011 1:49:12 PM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 492

If your trying to imply that "government = cooperation" and "market = pure selfishness, and viscous destructive competition", I disagree with both points. I don't think Brooks went nearly far enough.... but on the right track. Companies and governments demonstrate the same human activity, in essence humans giving up liberty for cooperation and advancement of ourselves and our species through cooperation. It's what we do, everywhere and virtually always. None of us are libertarians by nature, in fact the opposite. Our un-liberty pro-social nature is what makes the species successful. We build layer upon layer of governments and encourage them to build layer upon layer of regulation to control ourselves; to take away liberties. In companies we build layer upon layer of management whose specific job is to take away the liberty of those below them. The libertarian view you espouse in antithetical to the human species. Sure we sometimes rebel around the edges, but we always go back to the same behavior. The only true libertarians are sociopaths and criminals.

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