>>> My intuition is that the government is going to be slightly fairer 
>>> than,
>>> for example, Disney.  That's just a guess, though.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>> With an emphasis on "slightly" I might tend to agree but it looks more 
>> like the difference
>> between liver cancer and kidney failure than it does the difference 
>> between perfect
>> health and a cardiac arrest.
>>
>
>Disney doesn't have the power to tell me what I may eat or smoke, 
>except in their parks and on their property.
>
>Disney doesn't have the power to come to my house and search it (except 
>when they collude with the police or other state-sanctioned actors, 
>such as the SPA).
>
>Disney can go bankrupt and vanish if they make the wrong decisions or 
>anger too many people.
>
>Disney cannot draft men into their armies and send them to die in 
>foreign wars.
>
>Disney cannot establish death camps to liquidate Jews, gypsies, 
>Ukrainians, intellectuals, and capitalist roaders.
>
>And so on, for thousands of examples.
>
>Other than these examples, yeah, you and Bruce are right that 
>government is slightly fairer than Disney.
>
>Snort.
>
Gurgle.

Did you overlook the analogy? A miniscule difference in relative measure is irrelevant.

>--Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States
>" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the 
>blood of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787

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