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vegan atheist indy
- Sep 27, 2008
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You never found it rigorously defined? Is that because you have your head so far up your ass you can't see anything? The defnition is so well known, and so rigorous, that it actually has its own Wiki entry. It has nothing to do with money, or population, it is all about limiting the government so that it doesn't have the power to lock people up without cause or recourse.
Maybe, if you understood that concept, we wouldn't have people begging the OAS to help free American citizens held without charges.
Family of Indefinitely Detained American Seeks International Help - Reason 24/7 : Reason.com
What is the quantitative measurement of a limited government? Maybe if you actually read through the thread, you wouldn't be so aloof.
I have already read through the wiki entry on limited government, and what is clear, is that it has a qualitative definition, not a quantitative one. However, sometime between the inception of our country and now, the term has come to include a qualitative definition, and I want to know what that quantity is. It is the conservative mantra that we need a "smaller government." I assume that it is modern conservatives, after Reagan, who have conflated the terms "limited" and "small." I am not so concerned with how limited government was originally defined, although that is helpful to know, but how it is defined and referred to today, as having a quantitative aspect, at least rhetorically.
Do you have a problem using the English language? There are two types of governments in the world, tyranny and limited. Do you need a quantitative measurement of tyrannies before you can grasp the concept of not wanting to live under one?
It is idiots that insist that government is about doing things for people that insist that government be quantified. They do this because they believe that government has its own money, and that it exist to protect people from their own stupidity. The rest of us just want to limit your power to interfere with our lives, which is, and always will be, about quality.
Dude, you are a fucking moron. If you can't apply half your brain to this conversation, then just leave.
It is CONSERVATIVES who talk about a quantitatively limited government, in other words, a SMALL government. This implies a specific number which must be defined as small, yet I haven't seen it. Have you? If so, please share. In other words, I am merely responding to the rhetoric made by conservatives, and asking for definitions which need to exist. If you don't a definition for "small government," then stop saying it.
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