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darren shawn greer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Samantha wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The "community" is only a collection
of individuals. It has no special rights that trump those of the
individuals it is composed of. The widespread belief that it does is
precisely what makes horrors such as Nazism possible. It is what is
destroying even that one time symbol of deepest appreciation of the
individual and individual rights, America.
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Rampant indivualism is one of the
reasons corporate America has been able to join forces with the government of
America (and other countries of the west) to erode the rights and freedoms of
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Please think again about what you wrote there. In a limited government
that truly respects individual rights and is utterly forbidden from
violating them in any way there is no government coercive power over
the rights of individuals to be sold to corporations or any other
entity. It is only the departure from full recognition and support of
individual rights that allows this.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I would also argue that it was in
part what made Nazi-ism possible as well. Crush the unions, under-fund the
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Unions when backed by coercive state power over the rights of
individuals who happen to be employers tend to violations of individual
rights. It is only individual rights and their inalienable superseding
any desire of the state nature that is a fit protection against
oppression by the State no matter what its nominal political stripe.<br>
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- samantha<br>
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