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« on: September 07, 2004, 07:30:17 AM » |
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The fantastic thing about the Netherlands. The government trusts the people to run their own lives! ...and they do it so very well. I remember reading that the Netherlands has the lowest level of drug abuse in Europe (Yet drug policy is very liberal!). They have the lowest level of abortions, child abuse, rape and domestic violence in Europe (Yet attitudes to sex are extremely liberal!). See the correlation? Liberal states and cities are ALWAYS much more successful. Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, Reykjavik, Frankfurt etc. are regularly voted among the best cities in the world in which to live, and they're all very liberal. Authoritarianism doesn't work. Get government out of people's lives and their bedrooms that's what I say!
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