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Originally Posted by El Blanco
This is screwing over a group of people in order to save a larger group of people.
And, kids, do we all know what this is called?
Thats right. Democracy.
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Isn't liberal democracy about safeguarding individual rights? A towns prosperity isn't an issue of individual rights by any reasonable extent, so according to what I thought the American conception of democracy was, the government shouldn't be limiting the rights of any individuals for that purpose.
Not that I really agree with that kind of liberal stance on this kind of issue, in principle I think it's alright for a government to limit individual rights for the good of the community.