Yes, I think it can be visualized as a continuum of power between the individual and the state.
It's almost like a zero sum game. The more power the government has, the worse for the individual, and the more power the individual has, the worse for the state.
Add to that the ethical problem of the state being based on violence, which makes it an unethical institution no different, at the core, from a maffia gang.
I think government can best be compared with cancer. It grows until it gets too big and kills the host, and then it collapses.
If that does not happen, the host, that is we the people, live sub-standard lives, feeling ill and getting depressed by all the medicines we need to take to keep the cancer in check.
Either way, governments have killed way more people throughout our history than private companies, which are based on voluntary informed consent, and
Ahhh... this is interesting! I agree with you that rules are needed in a community, in a market and within a government. 100%.
I do however believe, that it is 100% possible to create and enforce these rules in a private way, and that this in fact, has happened (and is happening) around is every day.
Therefore I do not think we need the government which in my opinion is morally indefensible. All we need is market dynamics and individuals.
Another one? Haha, those walls of texts are completely meaningless communist propaganda.
As I explained, he is a mentally ill clown, so I don't even read his ramblings any longer.
I'm just interested in triggering him and you as often as possible to see how much time you will both waste arguing with someone who has already won the argument. =)
Yes, I would add the irrational. I can for the life of me not understand that that ism still lives.
It has been thoroughly disproven scientifically, historically and logically, so any rational human being should be completely aware of the fact that it does not, and will never, work.
Yet, it still pops up every where, especially in academia in europe.
Yes, maybe it is a kind of mental illness or mind virus?
Science and logic: check mises.org and economics. Nothing support communism, and verything supports the markets and capitalism.
Even the communist party of china has embraced the market.
History: Every attempt has failed. Period.
Some other points: Due to the inherent limits of the physical universe and how information travels and is processed, only decentralized decision making
Why would I back my claims? You are just a clown, and I don't take you seriously, so my goal here is to make you lose as much time as possible arguing with me. =)
The more time you lose here, the less time you have to spread your poison else where. =)
Running? I just find it fascinating that you keep sending a wall of text without any meaning. But we've already found out that you are mentally ill, so I should be surprised. =)
It's an interesting theory, that the reason socialism keeps popping up, is due to weaknesses of the brain.
Envy is probably the backdoor through which socialism slips, and greed and narcissism on behalf of the socialist leaders. They exploit the envy of the working classes to satisfy their own greed and lust for power.
Makes you wonder... if therapy and psychology was "100%" would socialism die out as the human race becomes
That's an interesting observation too. When many young people start to work many discard socialism. I think another protection could be increasing the voting age to 20 or 25 to make sure you have enoug life experience.
Alternatively, only people who work get to vote, and if you live off the government, you are not allowed to vote.
With those two changes I think the support of socialism would be cut in half.