- 23 Mar 2013 00:34
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That's like pointing out that a little cancer is better than terminal cancer. That's true....but you've still got cancer.
Eran wrote:I am as anti-government as anybody I know. Still, one has to acknowledge that the quality of government (the extent to which it engages in objectively-criminal activity) is not even.
Modern western governments are much better than older western and current non-western governments.
We also see both some success in limiting (or, at least, slowing down) the expansion of government powers and, in all-to-rare an occasion, actual scale-down of government powers, at least in particular fields.
This is to say that political culture is a critical component in determining the actual extent of government activity.
A minimal government will stay "minimal" for as long, and to the extent, the that underlying political culture within society demands a minimal government, and sees non-minimal forms of government intervention as illegitimate.
That's like pointing out that a little cancer is better than terminal cancer. That's true....but you've still got cancer.
"Anarchy is order, government is civil war" - Proudhon
7 minute guide to ending violent hierarchies (statism) -www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2wQAQCip8
7 minute guide to ending violent hierarchies (statism) -www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me2wQAQCip8