Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

[Jim Choate]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 measl at 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.

You're free to hypothesize to your hearts and brains content. Fortunately
a hypothesis is worthless until it's tested.

Where's your data?


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