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Is There a Balance Between the State and the Individual?

i'm very drawn to the idea of that original ameriaerican ideal, which is that the state exists largely to protect the individual from the state. But at the same time, i do think that it was set up in a way that was a sort of a male typical approach to looking at the world and had less attention paid towards basic care. And if we had a system that paid more attention to relationships, in terms of care, relationships, that, for example, we would have national help surance by now. We would not have a situation where people had to live in fear of losing a job. Means also losing an ability to survive physically and have your children survive physically

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