It is a good thing they are totally without an agenda then.
I think you and I have completely different definitions of what constitutes âThe Mediaâ, so Iâll just withdraw from this.
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All the best and Happy Holiday Season.
So when Americans created a government of the people, by the people, for the people, they were just being as cluelessly malevolent as the monarchies of Europe they were escaping? You can run for office right now, and if you are elected does that mean you can no longer trust yourself?
In a democracy government is a compact between citizens to try and work things out to satisfy the aims and needs of everyone as best we all can. The fact that our government has strayed from those goals doesnât mean government is by definition bad. The federal government, the state/provincial government, the municipal or county government, the neighborhood association, these are all the same kind of thing just of different magnitudes.
Citizens of what? On one hand youâre making a broad anti-government statement, on the other youâre still discussing âcitizenshipâ, which is tough without a country to be citizen of.
If you canât play well with other children well then take your ball and go home, but donât insist we all have to do the same.
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And without a government, these very wealthy men would be in charge of private armies necessary to protect their wealth. And our only recourse to protect ourselves from them would be to raise our own army, and perhaps some form of shared donation to pay for that army, and an organization to make sure everyone who pays has equal say in the how we are to be protected . . . oh wait, that sounds like a government.
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exactly. âthe government has a monopoly on the use of forceâ is a great catch-phrase until you realize that the alternative is a robust, competitive market in the use of force by unregulated actors.
it still might be preferable, but i think most people donât even get to the consideration.
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in his defense, theyâd been wishing to do all that for ages; the attack was just an opportunity.
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Thank you for saying what I managed to mess up earlier.
I donât believe thatâs the only alternative to statism, but it is what the libertarian-capitalists are offering.
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Yes, good point. And if there were no governments, how many would have died? Somehow I donât see an absence of governments being a magical paradise where nobody gets killed. Most of those who died at the hands of their own governments were in totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, the USSR, Pol Potâs Kampuchea, Pinochetâs Chile, etc. All governments are not autocratic totalitarian nightmares.
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The very idea of âno governmentâ is a fantasy that can only be sustained on the outskirts of society, lobbing insults inward at the people trying to find the freest and fairest way to govern. There is no vacuum nature abhors more than a power vacuum. When truly hardcore anarchist/libertarian comments get rolling, it just makes me think of the incredible amount of highly tuned infrastructure it would take to prevent government from forming organically again and againâŚ
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