Are "they" really the enemy?

Brad Shantz bshantz at spry.com
Thu Aug 18 10:52:15 PDT 1994


>>		    Where do we start?	If, or based on the words of many
>> on this list, we tear down the government, will we understand the 
>> resultant human-made system any better?

>You won't tear down the government without replacing it.  And I would
>argue that the more violent the means used to tear down the government,
>the more repressive its successor.  Governments exist in part because
>we are such dangerous animals.

Well said, Jim.  However, I question the "more repressive its successor" part.  
(Note: I have nothing to back up that statement, except that it didn't hit me 
as being entirely true.)  
				Brad

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