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Originally posted by bilmore
It's not just a political label, you know. It means that people are free and empowered to have a say in the running of their own lives - that people can affect the course of their own existence, that people aren't just slaves to some powerful thug. I guess our basic disagreement, then, starts right here - it's not only our right, it's our duty.
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Doesn't that run the risk of just making us the most powerful thug of all? How do we know we are always right? And what keeps us from moving to "empowering people" to run their lives the way we say?
You don't trust the federal government to decide when a religious majority is imposing its views on our children here at home, but you trust it to go roaming free throughout the world, picking off governments it decides aren't sufficently democratic?
And how are we to pay for this? You are on record as saying that taxes are too high now. How much higher do you think they would have to be to support a standing military that numbers in the tens of millions?
