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> Keeping employees/contractors in fear that they will never stop chasing you is a good way to stop people from doing this. This is contradicting to the idea o
by avmich 6y ago
> Keeping employees/contractors in fear that they will never stop chasing you is a good way to stop people from doing this.
This is contradicting to the idea of government existing for people and serving people.
If government uses fear to reduce accountability, it needs to be changed.
- dustingetz 6y ago"it needs to be changed", as in, someone else should change it but not you (I am merely pointing out the paradox of inaction. Enacting change is a lot of work, so one must first decide to contribute actual work, then figure out what actual work needs to be done, then do the work and measure the result. Work = force * displacement and if nothing is displaced, no work has been achieved. Rosa Parks wanted change so she did the work. Snowden wanted change so he did the work.)
- colordrops 6y agoOne of the best levers many of us have is public forums, so this commenter is doing something great - enforcing the idea that the government should be changed in thousands of readers' minds. Once an idea gets enough traction, it often can turn into actual change. You are only reenforcing the fatalism you seem to criticize.
- mch82 6y agoYou’re both right. Colordrops is correct: comments matter because they help shape public opinion. Dustingertz is also correct: governments & political parties have published processes for changing & enforcing policy. Citizens who read the docs & use those processes can achieve a lot.
- mindslight 6y agoWell yes. Personally blowing up a federal building, assassinating politicians, etc is frowned upon and generally produces the opposite of the intended effect. Ridding ourselves of this metastasized illegitimate government will take collective action.
- tshaddox 6y agoIt does contradict that idea, but that idea has long been a farce, so contradictions are not surprising.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoNot if you believe that the people want the government to protect them and they are ok with these programs if they enable the government to do that.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI think time has shown that even the people whom the government supposedly exists to serve don't want it to do that. They actively seek to elect and support wannabe dictators, as long as they are dictating things that hurt people they don't like.
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