(March 2, 2009 at 7:58 pm)atrasicarius Wrote: The point is that if you dont like the laws where you are, you can go somewhere else, or start your own community. Sure the laws will be kind of crappy in some communities by our definition, but "people get the government they deserve." If they want to be idiots, that's their right.
Well, quite apart from you being wrong for reasons already given (you didn't actually deal with my point about teaching creationism), I think the proponents of so-called anarchy don't actually want true anarchy, they just want the laws and government constructs they find oppressive (impinge upon THEIR freedoms) to f*** right off.
Personally I am reasonably happy with the democratic system we (in the UK) have ... yes certain administrations go too far but every 4 to 5 years we have elections and that's when I get my chance to say what I think by putting a tick in the box of the party I would prefer to be in.
IMO centralised government is a necessary evil and, if run according to a society's morality (and in democratic systems laws do tend to reflect a given society's moral stance) tend to be rights based and that's a reasonably good thing I suppose (though I don't tend to believe in rights per se).
Kyu
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