RE: Government is Irrational.
July 4, 2013 at 2:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2013 at 3:07 am by genkaus.)
(June 29, 2013 at 8:06 pm)Koolay Wrote: Similar to God, Government breaks all of it's own rules it inflicts upon it's citizens. For example, The old testament God flooded the entire world killing all of every living thing bar 2 of every species, men, women, children were all drowned from the very same entity that said murdering is always wrong.
If you put the Government through any level of logic or Aristotelian principles it becomes illogical immediately.
Government, similiar to God, kills and inflicts harm on people in mass numbers, breaking and going above and beyond all of the proposed 'rules'.
For example, the government can put people in a cage and call it 'citizen rehabilitation', but if you do it, it is called kidnapping.
The government can kill people and it is called 'freedom fighting' or 'justice' or 'foreign policy', but if you kill people, you are simply called a murderer.
The government can steal and extort money from people and it is called 'taxation', if you do it, you are called a thief.
Not only is government irrational, but it is simply evil if you apply rational thought to it.
All the more reason why it should be held accountable for all its actions.
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine
(June 29, 2013 at 8:10 pm)Koolay Wrote: Pretty simple, society organising without the initiation of force or violence.
And who would ensure that there was no such initiation?
(June 29, 2013 at 8:24 pm)Koolay Wrote: Small tangent:
From my understanding of the profile of murderers, that behaviour comes about from traumatic experiences in childhood and being brutalised, ignored and abused by their parents and other people. By the point society as a majority realises that initiating violence is wrong, murderers would be such an abnormality it wouldn't even be a concern any more. Similar to how countries that have outgrew religion don't see public executions any more, it's just not a concern anymore since it is such a social taboo. The environment were children would be exposed to abusers would be so rare.
More to the point:
Like anyone that breaks a rule in a rational context- they get banned from goods and services. I don't know what that would look like exactly; technology and process wise (since i cant predict the future).
After all, how many people would willingly do business with a murderer now? let alone in the future.
I think you are confusing murderers with - I don't know what you are confusing them with, but they don't fit such a narrow profile. Even if all of society were to accept initiation of violence as wrong - which they don't - many people would happily commit that wrong if there was a suitable benefit to it. And people would still deal with murderers if they have something to offer.