Originally posted by Starlight
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The US government is bloated because both parties work to make that happen. The government in my country isn't, because all parties work to make it not happen. A pattern I see in really successful countries is that the governments in them are really efficient, because there's a cultural understand in those countries that governments ought to be efficient and the parties work to make that happen. The Scandinavian countries likewise expect and have efficiency in their governments.
I would indeed say that "personal responsibility" is not a value I have any interest in, and even that I think it's meaningless term with no well-defined content, and it would hence not appear on any list I was making of my top-1000 values
I think it is a morally-confused term that reflects indoctrination rather than clear thinking.
Absolutely and totally not true. This is what I mean about libertarians being naive and ignorant.
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