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3/2/2015 4:03:09 AM
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Edited by Britton: 3/2/2015 4:06:39 AMSo you think the government in no way protects you at all?
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How can governments protect you when they are the single largest exterminator of human life throughout history? How can they protect your sovereignty and property through directly violating both? In a narrow sense, yes, they do like any good farmer would on a (tax) farm.
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Nothings perfect.
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Nobody said there was. Although the scope to cause damage can be widely dispersed and penalized in a free society.
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So your saying anarchy, the "ultimate" free society, is also the most potentially damaging?
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The opposite. Without a violent monopoly in place as the largest vacuum of sociopaths and criminals--that also holds influence over everything in a geographic area--individual's poor decisions are not as influential. And of course when those that make the laws break them there is no punishment. For some reason we are still surprised at this.
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But what's to stop the guys with the biggest guns from holding an area and forcefully establishing a dictatorship in an anarchy?
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We already have that. But the fact of the matter is that immoral institutions don't need to keep being battered down once people deem them so. Furthermore, why are you juxtaposing government to anarchy as the undesirable among the two as an argument [b]for[/b] government?
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Classifying all the different types of government together makes it hard to talk about them realistically. We don't have a dictatorship, we have a democratic republic.
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We have a representative republic. One that has been at war for 214 of the 236 years that it has existed. Meanwhile it is selling off the unborn as debt slaves and oppressing an underclass. So yes, let's talk about the fictitious oh-so-horrible "dictatorship" that will spontaneously appear, set up a tax base, and enslave an area unopposed. We better work that one out real thoroughly.
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By definition we don't have a dictatorship. If you wanna discuss our current governments flaws however go for it. I'm probably in agreement with you on the majority of it.
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And benevolent dictatorships have had better track records for peace. How many systematic killings and catastrophes are going to occur before we do away with it?
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The problem with dictatorships, benevolent or not is that it rides on a single individual, and has little or no checks and balances.
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Okay, that wasn't my point. My point was that most dictatorships have had more peaceful histories than our representative democracy. Ergo categorizing governments means nothing.
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Well you just categorized, so it kinda does.
