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To: TimF who wrote (8434)	6/7/2011 3:33:19 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Only humans that are political players. I don't mean that politics changes them (although it can, and probably often does) but it is human instinct to try to control things if you have the power to do so. Its also human instinct to resist such control, but the ones with the power make the political decisions, so control frequently expands. Companies and governments demonstrate the same human activity, in essence humans giving up liberty for cooperation and advancement of ourselves and our species through cooperation. It's what we do, everywhere and virtually always. None of us are libertarians by nature, in fact the opposite. Our un-liberty pro-social nature is what makes the species successful. We build layer upon layer of governments and encourage them to build layer upon layer of regulation to control ourselves; to take away liberties. In companies we build layer upon layer of management whose specific job is to take away the liberty of those below them. And those below happily give up liberty for security. The libertarian view you espouse in antithetical to the human species. Sure we sometimes rebel around the edges, but we always go back to the same behavior.