At 02:26 PM Monday 11/3/2008, Wayne Eddy wrote: >From: "John Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:18 AM >Subject: Re: Democracy (was Health Care / The same damn topic all f-ing >week!~) > > > >> Not even if they asked and you told them? > > > > How happy are you on a scale of 1 to 10? No, I don't think > > I'd trust my answers on that. Compared to what? Myself > > in the past? That would be hard to judge. Other people I > > know? Even worse (how do I know how happy they are?). > > And how to know how much of the "happiness" is due to > > the government and how much is the result of other > > causes? > >Surely you would be happier in a juristiction with a constitution that >forbade government involvement in those activitiess you believe to be much >better run by the private sector? > >Surely if you were aware that you were being poled on your happiness in >order to assess whether the existing constitution was to be retained or >replaced by one that encouraged wild government spending, you (and all right >minded citizens) would score themselves 10 out of 10 for hapiness to avoid >the change?S
So what do you do if the present system is badly flawed but the only proposed alternative does not seem any better? (e.g., the named in the previous subject line) . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
