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Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo... by cpursley on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:44AM (#5962362)
Well, it depends on your political preference. Strong social liberty or strong economic liberty or something in between? It depends on what's important to you.

Economic Freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/

Democracy Index: https://portoncv.gov.cv/dhub/porton.por_global.open_file?p_d...

Human Development Index: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr4press/press/outreach/figures/HDI_Tre...

Gun Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/gunindex.html

Press Freedom: http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html

Drug Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/drugindex.html

Various other stats: http://www.eiu.com/default.aspx

Just notice the trends - which countries are you seeing at the tops of most of the lists?

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Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo... by vacri on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:32AM (#5962472)
It's curious that you mention libertarianism in your first comment, but the leaders in most of those lists are the social democracies.
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Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo... by cpursley on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:49AM (#5962516)
Just providing options. Personally, I'm skewed towards economic freedom.
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Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo... by vacri on Saturday June 29, 2013 @11:18AM (#5962625)
Sure, though there are plenty of small government countries out there that aren't hell-holes (eg Vanuatu). It's just that social democracy is really quite philosophically different to libertarianism - the underlying ethos being 'everyone gets support' instead of 'every man for himself'.
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