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No matter which side of the piracy/sharing debate you fall, there really should be no room for us to tolerate the use of government power without integrity. Go
by crusso 14y ago
No matter which side of the piracy/sharing debate you fall, there really should be no room for us to tolerate the use of government power without integrity.
Government needs to follow the rules all the time and at every level.
We give the Government power to act on our behalf because we suppose that it has the moral and physical authority to do what we can not as private citizens. When the Government loses its moral high ground by breaking the law or otherwise acting without integrity, then its use of power is simply abusive and worse than the criminal behavior from which it purports to protect us.
- thaumasiotes 14y agoI don't really object to this, but in the spirit of the devil's advocate... There's an argument that we give the power of force to the government because it's better to live under one predictable bully than in a free-for-all. That argument isn't particularly weakened by bad behavior on the part of gov't.
- dhimes 14y agoSeems to me that the argument you cite is made out of hopelessness rather than hope. I may be pragmatic, and even wise, but I don't like it. I at least like to think that we can reign in the government and compel it to live by certain moral standards.
- crusso 14y agoThat's a false dichotomy, isn't it?
- res0nat0r 14y agoWhat isn't being done with integrity? What I've seen sofar is the government got New Zeland authorities to arrest people of MU who they believe are responsible for illegal activities in the US. A huge portion of MU's business physically resides in Virginia, so this seems legit to me.
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