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Law and the government are there to do what benefits the society that grants them their power. Blindly upholding contracts does not benefit the society that gra
by eropple 7y ago
Law and the government are there to do what benefits the society that grants them their power. Blindly upholding contracts does not benefit the society that grants them their power.
("But look at all these other things they do that suck!" - yup, I'm there with you, but the purpose of government is to be just, which is not the same thing as clueless.)
- meddlepal 7y ago> Law and the government are there to do what benefits the society that grants them their power. Blindly upholding contracts does not benefit the society that grants them their power. That is but one (very left) interpretation. Good luck getting everyone to agree.
- EdTsft 7y agoI find it surprising that anyone would disagree with this. What do you view as the purpose of government? Isn't any other role just instrumental to ultimately benefiting society? Or are you just disagreeing with the part about contract enforcement in particular?
- meddlepal 7y agoI didn't state a preferred position, just that it's not that simple. For example, some forms of libertarian thought would definitely disagree that government has any role outside of contract enforcement.
- eropple 7y agoIt's "very left" to an Austrian. To pretty much everyone else it's uncontroversial.