On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 measl@mfn.org wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
You misrepresent, governments don't (in general) make 'arbitrary prohibitions'.
What, pray tell, governments have you been studying?
A bunch, something like 5000 years of recorded history. Please demonstrate a government that in general make 'arbitrary decision'. Not that doesn't mean decisions you don't like, or reasons you don't like. Just plain simple arbitrary decisions.
While I will agree that it is not the "job" of government to make arbitrary prohibitions, it _is_ within their *nature*.
A governments job is to do whatever it's chartered to do. If it works it lasts longer, if it fails it doesn't last as long.
Furthermore, all groups which can be said to be acting in a government-like manner, i.e., in a control state, tend to devolve into this behaviour very quickly.
People.
I would go as far as to hypothesize that formalized government may well be a group-agreed "scapegoat" [agent] for this behaviour.
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