Governments must be able to show that they are doing everything that is reasonable to protect citizens from threats, but they must be candid in admitting that not all risks can be eliminated without doing more harm than good and eroding the very values they are seeking to defend.

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It seems just as reasonable to have strangers intervene in telling citizens which of two equally ardent and equally deserving lovers they should run away with because, after all, it is an act that will have ripple effects throughout the lives of more than one person and sometimes that one person is too close to the situation to understand its far-reaching complexity.

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Still, knowing what is coming, it seems reasonable to wonder what is to become of our senior citizens when these voucher checks no longer cover the costs of serious illness.

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