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Entry: Submission Accomplished Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/submission_accomplished#16575 Post contents: Adriana, Unintentionally you provided a case study of the point I wanted to make to John Zmirak: on the one hand, you claim to advocate liberty, yet on the other hand there is an intense desire to control everything based on the (for you, self evident) assumption that people cannot survive if there is not a wise, benevolent authority to supervise them. You have to face the fact that this attitude is inherently incompatible with a free society. More troubling still, underlying the attitude that people have to be controlled, there is a massive contempt of the intelligence of other humans: they are assumed to be incompetent, stupid morons incapable of taking care of themselves -- for example, you obviously find it unthinkable that people could choose good education for their children or high-quality health care and effective medicines for themselves. You might want to consider doing some introspection on this hidden contempt, because, among other things, it is starkly anti-democratic. (From my own experience, I have found this unstated -- indeed, unconscious-- contempt of others to be extremely common in Scandinavia.) Sent at: 2008 11 22