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Humanity has done a great step forward in the last 50 years or so, usually you can trust the police and governments everywhere on the planet today to always do
by POPOSYS 4y ago
Humanity has done a great step forward in the last 50 years or so, usually you can trust the police and governments everywhere on the planet today to always do the right thing. So why this irrational fear and this anti-state ideology?
Don´t you love our modern leaders?
- no_time 4y agoMy bad, long live our great leaders!
- richardfey 4y agoHas Snowden written anything on this topic? Just wondering
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> usually you can trust the police and governments everywhere on the planet today to always do the right thing You jest, but a weaker form of "you can usually trust the police and governments today to do the right thing" is very much true for regular citizens in civilized countries. The two problem cases are 1) people working to keep those governments in check, which is a necessary function for their operation but one that, by definition, said governments don't like, and 2) the private sector. The private sector can, and will, abuse everything it can get its hands on, to the extent permitted by the most strict reading of the letter of the law.
- RalfWausE 4y agoMy grandfather had a nice saying: "The state is not your friend nor your ally, it is -at best- a adversary with whom you live in an unstable truce"