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Originally Posted by RazorSharp
Uh what? Please don't lump all Americans in together. What Ph8l suggested is most certainly not how I feel. I may mistrust certain elected politicians, to be sure, but the government as a whole I do not consider to be a hostile entity.
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I never said it was a hostile entity. I said Americans tend to mistrust the government in general. I think that much is true. I'm sure there are people out there who deeply trust all government the way they'd trust their grandmother. I think those people are a minority and crazy/naive to boot. I think it's accurate to say that the vast majority of Americans tend to trust corporations and distrust government.
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Yikes.
A) That's what you think makes us "freer" than Europe?
B) Are you implying that Europeans do not have freedom of speech?
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Yes. We have the freedom to fail. I'm no expert on Europe, but I see no many safety nets out there for people that no one ever truly fails or flops. Without failure you never learn. I have no stats to back this up, but I feel Americans take greater risks than Europeans.