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To: koan who wrote (8931)	12/14/2010 11:52:13 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

"E.g. you make this pronouncement. That is your opinion. which is fine, but just an opinion." Actually, I was quoting Mill, but I also endorse what he said, so I guess that makes it at least two people's opinion. BTW, dismissing that as "just an opinion" is a cop-out. You can't (or won't) offer a counter argument or justify a different view of the limits of authority, so you choose to dismiss it as nothing more than "an opinion." Also a cop-out is your argument that what freedom means is something "the people in democracies have to figure out for themselves." By that philosophy, anything - and I mean ANYTHING - "the people in democracies" collectively choose to do cannot violate any principle of freedom. Freedom, then, is a word with no meaning. Need I remind you that Hitler was democratically elected?