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Entry: What Would Machiavelli Do? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_would_machiavelli_do1#18886 Post contents: I’m not so sure that Frank is that far off. After all, the government isn’t forcing women to kill their children, at least not directly. The over turning of the laws of the states restricting abortions was unconstitutional to be sure, but permitting people to do something isn’t the same thing as forcing them to do it. It seems that it is much more the duty of the government to prevent a foreign invasion, and in this duty, which can only be done by the state and its governmental administration, there is an abdication of duty. In future, it is possible that the policy of open borders will lead to the break up of the nation-state and much suffering even including mass death by various causes. It is the duty of statesmen to prevent such preventable evils. Recall that the English politician, Enoch Powell, gave a famous so-called “Rivers of Blood” speech making a similar argument. By contrast, stopping abortion is something that at this point, must really be done by appeals to one woman at a time. Sent at: 2008 09 07