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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (8457)	3/14/2001 1:44:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

We are not conservatives, who say that there have always been and will always be the weak and the strong, and that the role of civilized people is to vitiate only the most vicious aspects of that reality. Nor are we liberals, who say that the role of civilized people is to protect the weak from the strong. That chivalric impulse ultimately weakens those protected, making them dependent on the good will of the powerful -- a good will that cannot be depended upon. Instead we see our role as helping to create institutions that make the powerless strong -- not so that they can in turn bully and intimidate, but so that they can act as equals in negotiating and bargaining with the strong. My own view is that both the conservative and liberal approaches, as defined by this source, are better than that of the social democrats. That last thing we need is to create additional self-serving institutions, however well intended. Karen