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I’m not sure what peeves me off the most: the countless atrocities committed by government, or the people who continue to support government in spite of these atrocities?
Actually, never mind. That’s an easy question to answer. Government will always be expected to be corrupt. Human beings are expected to be rational—or at least more rational that this!
If you look at our current government and all of its abuses of power—all of the wars it has waged, all of the brutality it has wrought, all of the oppression it has enforced, all of the civil liberties it has stripped from us, all of the censorship and suppression it has enforced, all of the cronyism it has fostered, all of the blood it has spilt, all of the minds it has indoctrinated, and all of the pain and suffering and death it has caused—and yet you continue to think that it serves our best interests, you are part of the problem, and you are one of the reasons why I am, and always will be, a libertarian!
Style inspired by Cyanide and Happiness.
Concept inspired by Rebecca Cohen.
1) libertarians aren't anarchists
2) the liberal actually had some valid points. Who would be responsible for maintaining infrastructure in the absence of government?
Right, and obviously those criteria aren't true about capitalism.
Sigh, I hear this far too many times. Property rights do not require violence. Violence should only be used in retaliation of aggression. If someone tries to kill me, I should not feel guilty if I kill him in self defense. Likewise, if someone breaks into my house, I have a right to shoot on sight. Defense is not violence.
I rest my case.
I believe if you want change in the government you should proactively seek to better it rather than disband it. Humans naturally form groups and have a leading member/s that they look to. Without these groups and leaderships each person follows his own rules and the people have to fend for themselves.
You could complain, rant, or start a riot with strong views about how the government is an evil thing and needs to be taken down. Conversely, you could study how the government works, raise awareness of your (what I presume will be educated and peace-seeking) ideas, find how to use the system to your advantage (again for educated, peaceful ideas), and make a change for the better. I'll admit the latter idea is one that requires work, but don't all things worth doing require effort?
No government or the most minimal government possible short of anarchy and there is nothing to stop a very powerful individual or a collection of individuals with a lot of money and an agenda from establishing a dictatorship or perverting/subverting things and I have no faith in a unregulated and disorganised civilian militia to stop something like that since it sounds like such a society wouldn't have an army.
Not to mention no King or Queen, that's not good for a state.
Evidence in history of America's economy and when the government was smaller has shone some severe damages like the lack of regulations or the VERY weak Articles of Confederation. Thomas Jefferson may have said that, and I'm paraphrasing here, that the best government is the one that governs the least. but take into account on what century he has lived in.
May I suggest studying democratic socialism/social democracy? It balances out individualism and social liberalism that libertarians seem to generally enjoy, but with government aid to help support its economy and social programs to protect its people. I think you would enjoy it.
Do you oppose our current government in that you think it should be replaced with a completely new system? If that's the case, than I vehemently disagree. As bad as it is, there is no better system. Having a crapulent, exploitable government is, unfortunately, the best case scenario.
Unless you're saying we should have no government at all.
Essentially he says that government begins when people agree to set down a series of rules to abide by (this follows Platonic logic of how law came to be) but the next question that people ask is what type of entity will enforce these laws (as people who decide to break these laws will eventually come around)?
According to Thomas Hobbes, that is how government came to be: It is suppose to be a charitable although firm entity of law.