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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (46152)6/17/2013 9:11:02 PM
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No people create governments. To the extent that society can be said to do anything (society is pretty nebulous its people that do things, even if its a wide range of people working together), society creates government far more than the other way around.

But your statement isn't only false,its also irrelevant. Even if governments did create society, society would still be a separate thing from government, just as a book is separate from its writer, and a baby is separate from his or her parents; so it would still be incorrect to conflate them.
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