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"Governments on the other hand... Have an awfully bad track-record of power abuse" Well ... yes, but isn't that just an unnecessarily specific version of the t
by freshhawk 11y ago
"Governments on the other hand... Have an awfully bad track-record of power abuse"
Well ... yes, but isn't that just an unnecessarily specific version of the true statement "Humans have an awfully bad track record of power abuse"?
- jMyles 11y agoThat's the big question in a nutshell: Are some humans just bad? Or does power make any human bad?
- ionised 11y agoAll are capable of doing evil, given the power and opportunity.
- jMyles 11y agoIt seems obvious, right? From this premise (and lots of other reading of the political "sciences"), I also find it easy to conclude that the internet and open source are preferable to government as methods of diffusing power.