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In article <692@huxley.UUCP> arg@huxley.UUCP (Adam R. Grossman) writes:

   Actually, the only legitimate reason for a law [or a government] is
   to benefit individuals.  I may be old-fashioned, but I still
   believe people are born with certain rights and to secure these
   rights is why governments [and laws] are instituted among women and
   men.  

This is a new way of looking at government.  The founding fathers
certainly didn't look at it this way.  There would be no reason to
have a government if the goal was to benefit individuals.  I say this
because individuals are restricted by governments.  The real purpose
of government is to protect the society of its people.  We don't spend
trillions of dollars on defense to protect individuals.  So laws
should only be made which benefit society.  As for individual rights,
it benefits our society for government to protect these rights.

Daniel Guilderson
ryan@cs.umb.edu