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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: TimF who wrote (23541)	3/30/2012 1:05:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

If he doesn't want to join the organization its voluntary. If its his parents choice is their voluntary decision, although it may be involuntary for him. That's irrelevant. We're talking about an organization that is shunning a kid. His parents aren't deciding that he can't join. He hasn't decided that he doesn't want to join. There is nothing voluntary about his not joining. The organization is deciding to exclude him yet provide membership benefits to his buddies. There are two ways to deal with that. One is bottom up--for his friends (and all the friends of other kids) to stand up for him and, by doing so, voluntarily forgo their own membership benefits and deprive the community of any collateral benefits. If enough do that, the organization will either wither away or accede. The other is for the greater society to shun the group in some form or fashion until it (voluntarily ?) accedes or folds its tent. Forcing an organization to change because he's unhappy with their policies is unreasonable, and if that's what's commonly done, then its borderline totalitarian. Or the government can, as you say, use force.

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