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To: Richard Babusek who wrote (2808)	5/25/1999 6:48:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

I don't believe in civil rights, per se. I believe rights are a hierarchy which flow up from the individual. Civil rights are created as an aggregate of individual rights, so creating "civil rights" naturally denies many people of individual rights. That, to me, is inadequate. There is no reason to not offer license. Why should we force people to think and act the same? I, for one, never buy into the concept that we "should be more like" anyone except ourselves. What I do like is looking at other cultures and recognizing where they have maximized individual liberties without hurting the general population. In this respect, the US is really in decline. We continually think of ourselves as a people within a nation rather than a nation of various peoples. If we altered our view, and took stock of our real needs, we'd find 1/2 the laws on the books are utter crap. Probably more. I don't believe we pay a price for letting people be themselves, as you said, the invisible hand is more than economics. I pointed out in other posts that the invisible hand wasn't even in "The Wealth of Nations", but in the "Theory of Moral Sentiments", which was not about economics. Many of the concepts spilled over, and the name stuck to economics. It is best applied to society in general.