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To: D. Long who wrote (9151)	9/24/2003 12:21:53 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 793770

re: Freeing individuals from the "vaguaries of happenstance" through government largesse. The problem that the proponents of the argument fail to accept is that it usually devolves to tyranny. and The problem with maximally restricted government is that it usually devolves into tyranny. Actually, Derek, anything can "devolve into tyranny" if it is allowed to. That is one of the root concerns of Aristotelian, Machiavellian (the sophisticated variety, not the popular kind), and Madisonian political philosophies. And what they all are, each in their own way, trying both to point out and to devise methods for avoiding, while at the same maintaining Steven's notion of government as "referee" between conflicting factions.