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Cato - Facebook
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
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new media post
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New Media
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The Cato Institute authored a viral Facebook post which was liked 1,669 times and shared 2 times and is 5.0x as engaging as other content from the account: "If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"