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Cost of living just the symptom : Comments
By John Coulter, published 12/4/2012Living costs are rising faster than inflation because of a failure to deal with the underlying causes.
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< Surely our future as a nation and the quality of life of us all therein and the quality of our environment, are a WHOLE lot more important than the extent to which governments might impinge upon our personal freedoms >
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<< The problem with this is of course that you pose the two sides as being mutually exclusive >>
No, not at all. I could have levelled the same criticism at you when you expressed your bottom-line question: “how far are you prepared to let your government rule your life, and make laws about what you can and cannot do?"
I’m surprised that you level this obviously incorrect criticism at me. Of course government intervention in our lives is not mutually exclusive from quality of life / sustainability / population policy.
<<…the only possible implementation of your policies is through a command-and-control structure that subjugates individual will… >>
Really?? Absolutely not at all.
The greater the population becomes, the more out of balance the demand and supply-capability will become and the more agitated the populace will be. It is under this scenario that governments would have to move decisively and implement ever more restrictive laws.
You see Pericles, you attribute a mean highly restrictive world to me if I were to get what I want – a stable population within a sustainable society. I completely can’t see that.
It is surely exactly the opposite – if we continue to get what you apparently want; rapid growth until it is blindingly obvious that it can’t continue, we will end up with a highly restrictive governmental regime…for sure!!