Ben Shapiro
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A bunch of people in a closed room somewhere figuring it out for the rest of us?
The free market, I will trust every single time on matters of technological development and innovation over the centralized control of anybody, no matter what mantle they claim to speak under.
Because freedom remains a basic necessity for human innovation and development.
And this is a broader conversation that requires, I think, explication inside the right is a battle that is clearly emerging on the right between values of liberty and freedom
and people who believe that virtue must be instituted by centralized control.
You can be a big believer in both virtue and freedom.
It's the structures in which both exist that need to be talked about.
And once you have religious authorities calling for government involvement, I start to get a little skittish, a little skittish.
I believe very strongly in the power of social institutions, in the teaching function of churches.
I think it's deeply important.
But once you start claiming it's time for the government to grab the reins,
I'm going to get very cold on that very quickly.
All right, coming up, we'll get to the latest in Iran.
Will there be a deal?
Will there not be a deal?
Every day, it seems like there might be, there might not be.
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