Government

Inspired by the comments on this post over at Roberta X's place.

I admit, I'm not a fan of this og. I don't know him, I've only read his posts. He might be a good guy, I do not mean to cast dispersions upon his character. I just believe he thinks things that are very wrong, immorally and dangerously so.

He posits the existence of a government is necessary because of the, well for lack of a word, fallen nature of humans. The logic does not follow through.

If people are good, they don't need to be governed.

If people are bad, the worst thing in the world would be granting a subset of those bad people power over the rest of the bad people, most especially if the method of selecting which subset of bad people will rule is by asking the other bad people!

It's really that simple. If people are good they needn't be subjected to government. If people are bad then they cannot be trusted to govern.