Government is Irrational.

[bennyboy]

How do you know that? Do you have a galaxy spanning intellect were you can just predict the future and not provide any reason or evidence?

A few thousand years ago, it was the 'norm' to dash your child's head across the rock to appease the volcano god. Or to execute someone publicly for annoying a monarch. How do you know that democratic government is not just another violent phase in human development when we have become so progressively less violent as a species so far?

I know it, because I can experience anger, lust, jealousy, and other strong motivators on my own. I can see how normally peaceful people behave under stress, and I can see how stress is sometimes unavoidable.

Anyway, your thesis is not that government is sometimes violent-- a thing nobody would disagree with. Your thesis is that government is irrational. You are therefore implying that violence is irrational. There's nothing at all irrational about a king trying to lessen crime by making public displays of cruelty, specifically of those found to commit crime. It might work, and it might not, but it is not irrational.

You seem to be primarily concerned with the lessening of violence among humans. This is a great goal. However, the idea that removing government would cause a net reduction of violence seems highly unlikely to me. Not only that, the things you'd have to DO to be a victim of violence would be much more unpredictable in an anarchic "society." Now, for the government to do me real harm, I generally have to do something harmful myself. Under anarchy, I could have the shit beaten out of me because I looked at someone's wife, or his daughter, because they were physically attractive. I could be killed because I was picking berries in someone else's favorite berry-picking territory. I could be killed because I like the Beegees.

And most importantly, I would have no remedy for the fact that larger, stronger, younger men than I could seize my property, rape my children, or enslave me just because of their physical advantage.

You want anarchy? Go watch how gorillas live, and see if it's a step up.

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You can't take peoples money or hit other citizens, but it's okay for us to bomb people and throw millions in cages" it makes sense.

I don't agree with throwing low-level pot-dealers in prison. And I see the American government is pretty selective in choosing minorities to jail, where a young white kid is more likely to be given a chance. There's certainly some irrationality there, until you look at the actual goals ( as opposed to the stated goals ) of the actual people in the government.

In the end, though, you are still confabulating evil,violence, and irrationality. None of these things are the same as the others.