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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (760066)12/29/2013 2:47:38 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575139
 
Yes democracy is how you make the decisions and science guides us on what decisions to make. That is why I said both-gheesh.

Since democracy is how you make the decisions, not a guide to what decisions to make, your including it makes no sense.

As for science it provides information, but that isn't enough to establish a preference for policies. If it suggests policy A might have result B, and policy C might have result D, you have to have a preference for C or D that usually isn't and mostly can't be derived from science. Also science is weak in terms of the information it can give us on most political controversies. Beyond that you often ignore the science when it doesn't support your opinion.

Explain what you mean by freedom.

Its basically a simple concept. If you don't understand the basis of it perhaps you need some remedial education in political philosophy. Where it gets complex is applying it to many real world situations. If you have a question about one area or another just ask.

Show me one country that has more freedom than we do.

That demand is pretty much irrelevant to the point. If the US is the freest country (and by a number of measures it isn't, even if its almost always measured in the top 15, and until recently in the top ten or even top 5) that wouldn't mean that it couldn't or shouldn't be more free. And even if it couldn't that wouldn't suggest that my support of freedom amounted to imposing on others. Its the exact opposite of imposing on others. Your the one who again, and again, and again wants to control what other people do, not me.
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