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I don't think you know what "aghast" means.

• twistedpair 13y ago
  Perhaps "aghast" was overblown. My point was that we're capitalists. Government should only intervene to prevent others from harming me or my property as the base understanding of the word. Who is the government to tell me the hours I can operate my business, the restrictions I can enforce on my employees, what I can coerce people into buying, or how others can exploit my likeness? They might all seem like sensible restrictions in Europe, but I've known a good many Americans who want to retain that freedom, even if it leaves our life expediencies behind the third world at the end of the day. Finally, I threw in the authoritarianism regime reference as an example of the extremes that society can find itself in. Germany, as a wealthy, highly educated country has made the decision that they want to live well in many ways at the cost of some "freedoms" that we defend. While we're "free," I must admit that I passed twelve homeless people today on the way to work while I never saw a one my entire stent in Germany. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it is a different way of thinking that you must consider before you blast their Bild law.