Limited Democratic Socialism

[tongodeon]

I've previously written about libertarianism. About how their first principles seem quite reasonable on paper, but not always in practice. The seems to be true of socialism. They start from very different first principles which sound nonetheless quite reasonable, but the conclusions that are drawn from them are not always correct

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[crisper]

I don't think establishing weights and measures, as a government function, is the same class of thing as building roads and running a postal service. It's more akin to establishing laws and a court system - a set of definitions provided in order to eliminate (or at least reduce) one common factor in human disagreements. "Let us all agree that this much grain is a bushel, so that when prices are set by the bushel, we all know exactly how much grain is involved."

[tongodeon]

I agree, but you're getting a little ahead of me. (I'm building a case.) Government interventions that dictate weights and measures intrude into the "personal liberty" of free citizens, but not for valid libertarian or socialist reasons. For additional, yet-to-be discussed reasons which are also valid.