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

To: epicure who wrote (12570)	4/28/2001 5:06:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

I don't see gov't as separate from the governed; nevertheless, they can and do act against the wishes of the governed and get away with. Witness the Vietnam War in this country. The problem is that to oppose a government's policies can be highly dangerous. Also, the wishes of a majority of the governed may be incompatible with the rights of some section of the national population. Nazi Germany is a good example of that. So back to this: Societies have the right to live the way they want to. Does that include the holocaust? Stalin's murder of 20 millon kulaks? Mao's genocides?