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Using those words, I tried to express the idea that a group's decision to force all individual members of the group to purchase health insurance can be seen as a choice that is taken in freedom and thanks to freedom.>
>"Forcing all individual members" and "freedom" do not belong in the same sentence unless that sentence is "Forcing all individual members of a group to do anything is taking away their freedom."
There are plenty situations where your community, local authorities and federal government force you to behave in a certain way. Those were all democratically decided upon (I hope). Your community, local authorities and federal government have taken the liberty to limit your freedom. Yes, both can be in one sentence the way I wrote it (unless there's again a language problem).
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Sure, freedom is important too. But there are enough cases where it is better for the community as a whole to llimit freedom. I can't imagine that you don't agree on that one.>
>Depends on what you mean. Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins <s>. I will agree that much. However, this country was founded on the limiting the power of the government, not limiting freedom.
Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. Exactly, non-violence is another important principle that limits an individual's freedom. About limiting the power of a government, this is a misunderstanding of the real issue. It should be limiting the power of a
wrong government or of the possibility to become wrong. As I see it, a good and correct government rules on behalf of its population. In that case it might be regarded as a huge corporation (no, not like MS) with very many stockholders/owners. Their participation in the economy is, on a theoretical level, not in conflict with a capitalistic free market ideology.
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Hard to read for me, but I assume that it is about people who prefer slavery plus food to freedom. Is it felt like slavery if a democratic decision to force the whole citizenry to participate in a health insurance?>
>Yes.
Clear.
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