Chris H wrote:
“Re Juvenal’s questioning of collectivism. It’s just a question of degree. You like your collectivised army, don’t you? Your Police, your Fire Service? These are bodies that protect and look after the collective.”
It is PARTLY a question of degree. It’s also a question of being able to make meaningful distinctions between community and collectivity, a distinction which you’re continuing to pretend doesn’t exist.
It’s one thing for the federal government to tell me I have to pay for national security; it’s quite another for a bureaucrat in Washington to tell me I can’t smoke a cigarette because of the national health-care plan I was forced into accepting by a different Washington desk jockey.
It’s one thing for the community I live in to forbid me to appear drunk in public; it’s quite another for the federal government to dictate the legal BAC level to my state government.
