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this is a broad political question. think about what your government does. do you think all of it is justified? would more be justified? nevermind corruption or "not doing things well"--just, if you assume it could do what it seems to think it should, what do you think of that?
i live in the u.s. what i see is public education, taxes, prisons, traffic enforcement, courts, voting, funding a bazillion miscellaneous things no one human will ever know...
taxes make sense, as a government is really the ruling violent force if you ask me, beating down all others who want to use violence--with violence. but they don't use pure violence, at least not mine--most of it is kind of "public relations"--appearing justified, and so on, through things like voting and the press.
so we need some taxes to fund that kind of thing, and also to remain stable in the world's scheme of violence, i.e. you cannot become an obviously worthwhile victim to attack.
beyond that, i'm not sure what a nation should do. maybe that's all they really do. education might be just another form of pacifying people.
a nation looks to survive, right? all that crap about justice and rights just seems like something to make people feel more secure than they are and more trusting than they would be if they were more critical--not that they need to be fooled--people are looking for something to trust.
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Norway28256 Posts
I'm not sure if there's anything I think the government is unsuited for as long as it is the correct government, except for the media.
stuff like police and everything related, education and healthcare should always be only governmentially controlled imo.
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i think if the government is okay to do education and, say, elections, voting, or whatever system they use, they may as well do "the media" too. i think the important thing is for governments to strive to reduce the advantage of the majority, so that you always have many opposing voices represented, and this goes for the economy too. a government isnt just to keep arbitrary rules in place, but to maintain variety in the players. that goes for political and economic entities. in this respect, i think the u.s. is really stifled--u have 2 plausible types of voices heard in most cases...
and in education, u usually have a little less than that, at least until university, and even then, the 1-voice tradition bleeds over for too long--it's what students are just accustomed to.
i like the u.s. being founded in response to flaws and anticipated flaws, and basically trying to not repeat them. but we really should repeat this process once more. everybody knows about current flaws to an obvious point.
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Freedom is a myth. Anarchy is freedom. Nations are just players in a human drama. Was there a question or aim to those poorly articulated, though facinating, ideas?
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Baltimore, USA22222 Posts
On January 21 2006 23:25 JoeUser wrote: Was there a question or aim to those poorly articulated, though facinating, ideas?
Apparently you've read any of mitsy's posts before. ^_^
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On January 21 2006 23:26 EvilTeletubby wrote:Show nested quote +On January 21 2006 23:25 JoeUser wrote: Was there a question or aim to those poorly articulated, though facinating, ideas? Apparently you've read any of mitsy's posts before. ^_^ apparently you are one of the dozen fuckers who gets by bashing me OT for no reason constantly...
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mitsy are you high? ur babbling makes no sense and sounds extremely like the south park hippie episode
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Norway28256 Posts
what the hell, he didnt even use the word corporations
he might very well be high tho
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what should the government forced you to do?
you must be high, this is horrible english and i doubt your not high or actually an american
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Norway28256 Posts
I only meant that he didnt sound like one of those hippies from southpark because they're constantly talking about the corporations
he's probably high oh well that's never hurt anyone
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The government should forced you to spell better.
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drone can't you change the title so half the replies aren't like this:
On January 22 2006 00:12 SproutBoy wrote: The government should forced you to spell better.
On January 21 2006 23:50 Romanticide wrote: what should the government forced you to do?
you must be high, this is horrible english and i doubt your not high or actually an american
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Sorry to make you cry Locked, really i am.
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On January 22 2006 00:17 SproutBoy wrote: Sorry to make you cry Locked, really i am.
i'm writing in my livejournal about how much i hate you
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the title makes as much of sense as mitsys posts on this thread. you change the titel poeple will just flame the horribly written comments by mitsy
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On January 22 2006 00:00 Liquid`Drone wrote:I only meant that he didnt sound like one of those hippies from southpark because they're constantly talking about the corporations he's probably high oh well that's never hurt anyone
i meant to compare them to when the hippies are talking about the perfect society where like some1 bakes bread for other people, and some1 like protects the people. and stan and kyle just tell them that these already exist, and the hippies are stupid
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Wow really, you call horrible english a typo?, its only a d for crist sake.
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I don't think they would have bothered pointing out that small typo if his entire post didn't sound like (hate to be a sheep) the marijuana induced ramblings of a hippy. There is a worthwhile subject here it just hasn't been articuated well by stoner-boy.
On the topic, I think our government has the responsibilities to enforce the goals of our Constitution:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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Sydney2287 Posts
Natural Monopolies such as water. Something so fundamentally required by the population should never be controlled privately imo. Especially in countries such as Australia, where water being scarce enough (recent droughts) and the price is high enough already.
A private company controlling the water supply would be more likely to cut costs by reducing quality of the service, or to increase prices to increase profits, than a State-Owned Enterprise.
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actualy, the post doesn't sound like it's written by someone who's high. sound's more like when you get drunk, and there is nothing more to drink so you get sad, decide that you're life is shit and it's all the goverment's fault. no?
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