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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Democratic decisions in everyone's interest
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 01:33:25 EDT
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In article <669@whuxl.UUCP>, orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
> > 
> > Excuse me, but challenging you to find a person who can know your wants
> > better than you do consistently seems to me to be a perfectly valid
> > question to ask of those who claim that governments should have the power
> > to force their decisions on you for your own good.

Who said this, Tim?

No one I've read has stepped yet into the dog shit of suggesting that
someone else can know all of an individuals' wants better than that
individual consistently.  However, change that "all" to "some" and I'd
agree with that -- maybe I even said it once.  For instance, government
knows better than I what I want when I think that I want to avoid eating
rancid food.

No flames for my using a trivial philosophical example, please.
This is net.politics.theory.

Tony Wuersch
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