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To: Lane3 who wrote (6542)	12/10/2005 3:58:23 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542181

One thing that you don't recognize is that anything a democratic government does is deemed to have our consent whether you personally gave yours or not. "Is deemed" means is that someone, or perhaps even almost everyone, thinks that it does. It doesn't mean it really does. You don't get a veto. You don't get to drop out. Never said I did. Both are practical issues of specific fact. The government has the policy that I don't get a veto or get to drop out and it has the strength to impliment this policy. The only way you can get past that is to argue that the democratic form of government is immoral. "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill, 1947 Any form of government will probably require a certain level of immoral action. A liberal (in the classical sense of the term) democracy, would require less than most other forms of government. Still less if it is a minarchist/watchman/libertarian state, but requireing less isn't requireing none.