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    Thank you for not slagging off my views completely :)

    I realize in real world there is a sort of midpoint that needs to be achieved between the two opposing utopias. I believe though, for countries to achieve this sort of balance, they have to stay relatively small and lean. Europe of friendly yet competing countries, ie. like at the beginnings of European Community is effectively a stronger organism than an inevitably totalitarian European Superstate that not everyone realized at the beginning its architects had had in mind.

    Ie. if every US state had their own approach to healthcare, a winner, I mean a good system would be clearly visible soon enough and other states could follow. Some states would always suck, but you cannot build an ideal world, can you? It's much better than risking the whole country suck. :)

    Again, Switzerland is an example of reasonable decentralization I think sometimes..

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    • Switzerland is lucky is many ways.Corvo2
    • ...or smart?
      (have you read Eastern Standard Tribe by now btw?) :D      raf
    • No I haven't, I'm afraid.Corvo2
    • But being so lucky with the landscape... you cannot help being smart.Corvo2
    • no joke, that citizen law-making thing is brilliant, but it implies a strong identity.Corvo2
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