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The state is an entity designed to benefit all at the cost of the few, but thanks to the corruption of uneven power, the state ends up benefitting those in powe
by snappyTertle 10y ago
The state is an entity designed to benefit all at the cost of the few, but thanks to the corruption of uneven power, the state ends up benefitting those in power at the cost of those not in power.
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoBut here your problem is not with government but bad government.
- mindcrime 10y agoI would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually. That's why the State should never have the power to do anything that an individual could not justly do. http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y ago>I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually. Why?
- snappyTertle 10y agoThe balance of power allows government officials to control those outside of government.
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoThose outside of government have control over government officials as well. Besides it doesn't really answer the question.
- mindcrime 10y agoBecause those in control are inevitably going to become corrupt and use their power to advance their own personal agendas.