| ▲ | _heimdall 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
This extreme makes the question meaningless. A government isn't a government if it can't regulate and has no authority. Its fundamentally different to say governments or individuals should have no power or freedom. By design, governments have the winning end of a power imbalance and limiting them helps protect those on the losing end. Limiting those already on the losing end makes it worse for almost everyone (assuming the government is a small portion of the population). | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | malfist 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I don't think it does make it meaningless. If governments aren't allowed to regulate they aren't governments, its anarchy. Somebody must have the power to curtail the excesses of the moneied class. If the government is prevented from doing that only vigilantism will. We've already seen this play out. Government let's health insurance company get away with almost anything. The GOP wants to let them get away with more. One person who couldn't get the health care he was paying for took matters into his own hand | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | inigyou 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
We're supposed to be giving governments the winning end because if they don't have it, robber barons will. Supposed to. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | PaulHoule 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
There’s a certain argument that people are just in over their heads for a society as large and complex as our and we just can’t cut it. Nothing that won’t be fixed by overshoot. | |||||||||||||||||
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