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The2ndWheel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 01:27 PM
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2. I would think it would
As another example, if you chose not to pay your taxes, if you were caught, you'd be thrown in jail and/or fined. Too much freedom would be the right to choose which taxes you wanted to pay, or the right to choose to pay no taxes, without fear of penalty.

Democracy is a system of centralized government. If there was too much freedom, you couldn't have democracy. That includes the animals that are held captive in cages for our benefit, and only our benefit(And I support your hunting, that's what we as animals do. While I don't agree with what we do to them medically, I'm not about to bomb the labs, since the desire for that type of power is what causes the labs in the first place, and won't solve much anyway. Sort the same way we spread democracy around the world).

My best guess is that too much freedom would collapse whatever a democracy is.
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