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<p>[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 1474013, member: 24754"]This makes for a good slogan, but it doesn't work well in literal practice. The simple truth of the matter is that "the people" are too ignorant, self serving, and gullible to be relied upon for making important decisions.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When we lived in small hunter/gatherer groups this may have been the case. And it was under these conditions that we developed our instinctive desire for independence and freedom. But, if we are going to live together in large population societies, then we do in fact need a governing structure. And, for the purpose of maintaining order and sanity, that governing structure has to tell us what to do and enforce what we do under some circumstances.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have you watched Youtube videos lately? Do you think that some of those people know whats good for them?</p><p>Are you familiar with the motivated ends of hate groups and religious extremists? Are their ideas good for us?</p><p>You are making reference to the opinions of sane, reasonable, peaceful individuals (much like yourself I would assume). But again, we are individuals within a large society. The ideas and motivations of some of those people need to be governed, and you can't govern one without governing all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So the government should continue to lose money just because Americans like the $1 bill? You ever wonder why we are 16 Trillion in debt? It's because the government has to cater to the people, and that is expensive!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 1474013, member: 24754"]This makes for a good slogan, but it doesn't work well in literal practice. The simple truth of the matter is that "the people" are too ignorant, self serving, and gullible to be relied upon for making important decisions. When we lived in small hunter/gatherer groups this may have been the case. And it was under these conditions that we developed our instinctive desire for independence and freedom. But, if we are going to live together in large population societies, then we do in fact need a governing structure. And, for the purpose of maintaining order and sanity, that governing structure has to tell us what to do and enforce what we do under some circumstances. Have you watched Youtube videos lately? Do you think that some of those people know whats good for them? Are you familiar with the motivated ends of hate groups and religious extremists? Are their ideas good for us? You are making reference to the opinions of sane, reasonable, peaceful individuals (much like yourself I would assume). But again, we are individuals within a large society. The ideas and motivations of some of those people need to be governed, and you can't govern one without governing all. So the government should continue to lose money just because Americans like the $1 bill? You ever wonder why we are 16 Trillion in debt? It's because the government has to cater to the people, and that is expensive!![/QUOTE]
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