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Originally Posted by Chris
I know what the words she said were - what she meant was, society is not a faceless mass that simply takes on problems and deal with them without there being any consequences for anyone else. It is comprised of real, individual people - i.e. when someone absolves themselves of their problems, they make them someone else's problem.
That's a problem that in many ways still exists today. We have a well-known member of this very forum who posts repeatedly to say that his main criterion for voting is to choose a government that will "look after me and my family". That's a nonsense; we are not clients of a faceless State any more than we are the dependants of a faceless Society. The State is paid for by real people; society is made of real people. Everything we feel entitled to receive, ultimately is provided by other people.
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I'm sure in her dotage she's glad you're here to interpret her intent for her Chris.
If that's what a certain well known member of this forum sets his main criterion for voting as then well done him for exercising his democratic right and having the wherewithall to have a barometer by which he feels he can judge a potential Government.
Who are you, I or anyone else who believes in a democracy, to assert that his moral barometer is "a nonsense"?
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