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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (23468)3/17/2012 6:36:29 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
It looks like you don't consider anything non-physical or extra-legal as oppressive, coercive, co-opting, intrusive, etc. I disagree. There are plenty of ways for institutions to dominate people. We applaud them when we see the influence as beneficial but what if it isn't? What if it's well intended but deleterious? And even if it's beneficial, is it still not the enemy of individuality and freedom? Religious and educational institutions are particularly well positioned to impose standards and inculcate conformity wrt to values, opinions, and behaviors without physical force.

You'd have to be extremely autonomous to withstand most pressures to submit or conform. You seem to consider the failure to resist to be the equivalent of a choice. My perspective is that of someone who operates with an unusually high level of autonomy, yet even I find it unrealistic and unsympathetic and perhaps even unnatural to set such a standard.
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