Should the individual serve the state or the state serve the individual?
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damckenzie112
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The state should serve the people, if it's not, then what is the point of it.
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The individual always comes first
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That question is what politics is all about.
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The State should always serve the Individual.
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The two should work together to have a better nation.
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Ideally the state should serve the individual. In practice the individual serves himself and the state leeches off of him while he does. I suppose it will suffice. "We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around." - Ronald Reagan
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thats the neverending question classical republicanism vs individual liberties
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I think it is a bit of both, with greatest emphasis upin the state serving the individual. Ultimately, the state should be there to serve the people. That is at the heart of the democracy - we choose the leaders that we think will represent us, and our interests best. However - we can't just take from the state. Taking from the state amounts to taking from other individuals, in my opinion.
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I think that both are true.
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The state is the servant of man - or should be.
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The government (the state) serves the people. It is a tool that the people use to first, maintain their individual freedoms, their safety and order in their society. Like a broom, it should be parked out of sight until the people need it and returned when the peoples business is concluded. "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
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Without individuals, there can be no "state". Individuals create the state to assist in social and economic cohesion. The state is thus a tool of the individual and should be under the control of the individual. For the state to demand that the individual serve it, is a perversion of conceptual hierarchy. It would be like children demanding that parents have a curfew.
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The state should serve the people. Government is by the people, of the people, and for the people.
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The state should serve the individual. . "We are a people with a government, not a government with a people." - often attr. to Ronald Reagan
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We pay state tax for a reason. So the states can serve us.
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We give the state its power, and we can take it away. The state serves us. or it should.
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The state is our servant - it is never our master.
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