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Originally Posted by Shawnski
The state didn't invent the refrigerator. It didn't come up with pasteurization. It didn't conceive and build the light bulb.
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Of course the state didn't invent the refrigerator. The state, however, is a necessary condition for the refrigerator ever being invented. No state, no fridge.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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