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 Posted: Tue Aug 6th, 2013 06:22 pm
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 Hmm, Joe, you boil it down to someone besides myself, my loved ones.  No, I could not watch them starve themselves and not try to do something.  I would want to intervene.  I would want to help them.  First, I would want to know why they didn't want to eat, and then I would proceed from that answer to try to get help.

Yes and no.  That is a good answer for me.  It would depend.  But what I was thinking more of is whether someone in a white coat should show up uninvited and take matters out of the individual's hands as well as that of the family.

In regards to collectivism, I want to know if people can be collected even if they don't want to be collected.  Even if it is done so with out lies and threats or violence.

Like what if someone decides that everyone should live in cities, because that is what is "best" for people and for the environment and for commerce etc.  Should people be forced to live where they do not want to live?

What if someone lives on flood land, and they do not want to move, but they are forced to move because "the government" (a list of people) has decided that they will buy up all the flood land that surrounds rivers and then put in a damn so the  water can be controlled for the collective good.  What about the people who are forced off of their land for the collective good?