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Using an analogy: Do you think governments should help subsets of their population that are affected by sudden extremely rare disasters? Part of the goal of a g
by ijpsud 7y ago
Using an analogy: Do you think governments should help subsets of their population that are affected by sudden extremely rare disasters? Part of the goal of a government is to provide public goods - like fire fighting services, for example. Maybe your argument is "they should have been insured against having their family members killed by the state"? Pretty clear to me (at least) that this is an absurd position to hold.
Of course, the fact that this "disaster" was directly caused by the government probably builds a stronger case for the government having to use some of its budget to help them out. That just seems like a good policy in terms of incentive design.
Edit: Maybe your argument is that Indonesia should have (in effect) sued the Netherlands if they wanted to get compensation for their citizens?