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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (212255)	7/24/2009 12:58:43 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

<if you are free to require others to provide health care then the "others" are no longer free, they must provide health care> Again, this is nonsense. When I see a policeman on the street I do not say "that man cost me my freedom because I was forced to pay part of his salary". On the contrary, I cannot be free without the rule of law, and I cannot have the rule of law without police. And I cannot have the police unless they are paid. A policeman who only protected me because he was on my personal payroll would not make me free -- and would contribute nothing to a free society. The police can only underpin freedom by helping to ensure a free society -- a society free from fear of crime, not feedom for me alone without regard to others. By the way, we obviously do not do enough in the area of assuring this kind of freedom. You focus only on "freedom for me". You alone cannot be free -- there is no such thing as just you being free. To be free you have to have freedom for all -- and freedom for all requires justice, education and health for all.