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The place to achieve those goals is not the marketplace. We achieve those goals when we act as people, not as businesses. And the primary mechanism by which a society acts as a society is its government.

You’re correct when you say that ‘we acheive those goals when we act as people’, but you are incorrect in saying that we do so by being government. It is neither the duty nor the repsonsibility of government to take care of my needs—beyond protecting my life, liberty, and my property.

The problem is the governement doesn’t do anything like that well. Recent examples—how about the New Jersey Nets new stadium; a case which falls right on the heels of Kelo vs New London. Is government protecting property here? (in the latter—Pfizer is actually pulling OUT of New London now; but keeping the building). How, in either case, are the properties of the people being protected?

But, I digress. My point here is that it is not the responsibility of the government to feed or shelter me; that is my responsibility—unless, of course, I am completely unable to do so. Then, it is the responsibility of society to take care of me. Society doesn’t do that best as ‘government’, as you claim. Rather. society does that best by acting as Community—by pulling together and acting as one.

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Rather. society does that best by acting as Community—by pulling together and acting as one.

In an ideal world, perhaps. But int this one society is too selfish. That is why we have homeless people trying to live in our streets.

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