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To: JeffA who wrote (101631)	4/22/2005 2:30:23 PM
From: Jagfan	Respond to of 108807

No kidding. That CNN interviewee deserves a biscuits for id'yits. comics.com

To: JeffA who wrote (101631)	4/22/2005 2:38:50 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

It may seem stupid to you, but you might want to realize that it doesn't seem stupid to a lot of people. It's really a matter of what you believe in- and a lot of people believe in the government, because they want to. Sure, they could believe otherwise, but if enough people want to believe in the government, and are willing to enact laws to make the government take care of them, and enact taxes to pay for the care, then it will happen. I'm not sure it gets us anywhere to say that it is stupid. What it seems to be (to me) is a different way of looking at the world. As the behavioral scientists showed, lots of people don't want the power to decide for themselves. In a democracy people can decide they don't want that power, and give it to the government. Other people, who do not like that, can disagree- but at bottom what you are seeing is not stupidity, but a different way of looking at things. I think when you dismiss it as stupidity you give up any chance you might have of rapprochement with people who think in a way that is different from the way you think. You may not care about that. I have no way of knowing.