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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (212190)	7/24/2009 12:26:26 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<the government can do what it wants - it has the guns> Only if you live in an uncivilized, lawless dictatorship. The US, for example, while far from perfect, most certainly is not a lawless dictatorship. The failing of America lies less with the government than it lies with our understanding of how to effectively participate in the public discourse needed to keep the government on track in serving us and acting as our agent for purposeful social action. Ideology that blithely dismisses government as "bad" does little more than communicate that you do not have the capacity to play any sort of meaningful role in the discourse. Ideology makes life easy -- it means you don't have to bother to expend any energy thinking -- you have the answer to everything without giving it any thought because you boil everything done to one thing, your belief that government is evil. The only time that you do not need a government is if you are living alone on a rock -- and even then you would want to govern yourself, or else live a life that would make the other animals on your rock think of you as less than they -- for even the lowest of animals and insects govern themselves in some way.