Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Financing the government of a free society Message-ID: <1340223@acf4.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 15:57:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340223 Posted: Tue Jun 25 15:57:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 03:09:25 EDT References: <3841@alice.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 20 >/* mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) / 7:26 pm Jun 19, 1985 */ >If the government does not allow my neighbours to force me to go to >church, to have the "right" flowers in my garden, and so forth, my >freedom is thereby enhanced. If the government supports my neighbours >in these things (as local governments so often do in the name of >democracy), my freedom is reduced. > . . . >I fear social pressure to conformity more than I fear (here and now) >government controls on my behaviour. You seem to have indicated above that governments frequently support communities that put social pressure on individuals. By taking the power to do this away from governments, we can take much of the bite out of social pressure, but we probably can't eliminate such pressure completely without using even more repressive government. >Martin Taylor Mike Sykora