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From: hwarkentyne@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Kenneth Warkentyne)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Communism
Message-ID: <5529@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 88 20:38:23 GMT
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Reply-To: hwarkentyne@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Kenneth Warkentyne)
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I wrote:
>>[A statement in support of welfare]

Brad Templeton writes:
>It's all very well and good that you believe in, and say these things.
>I just don't see how you get the great leap that just because *you* believe
>in them, everybody should pay for them.
>...
>It seems that the concept of democracy minority rights is only invoked when
>it's convenient.  Let's hear an answer to my question that doesn't boil
>down to how might (numbers) makes right. ]
>
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

Well Brad, how could a welfare system work if citizens could opt out
if they so chose?  Since there appears to be a consensus in support
of the current system, you have the choice of putting up with it, attempting
to change it, or leaving the country.  I am not suggesting that you should
leave the country.

Might doesn't make right but sometimes you have to make a choice that
does not allow for every minority to be accommodated.  This is part of
democracy too.

Ken Warkentyne