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To: ctdonath2
I might be for decentralized government if I thought it would stay decentralized, just as I could be for limited government if I thought it would stay limited. The problem is that it doesn't. It never does. It centralizes and grabs more power. The logical conclusion is a single world government. And you can see clearly that we are heading in exactly that direction.

The natural human order is anarchistic, as the author of this article points out quite eloquently. Government is a perversion of natural community, which is a consensual ad-hoc kind of thing. It is increasingly taking over the family as well, replacing father and mother with courts and CPS "professionals".

Government has no limits. That is the problem.

41 posted on 01/14/2002 10:11:43 AM PST by Architect
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To: Architect
I might be for decentralized government if I thought it would stay decentralized, just as I could be for limited government if I thought it would stay limited. The problem is that it doesn't.

I might be for anarchy if I though people would follow the Golden Rule. The problem is they don't.

43 posted on 01/14/2002 10:15:28 AM PST by ctdonath2
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To: Architect
The natural human order is anarchistic

Sure, the "natural order" is to not have government...or computers, or electricity, or cars, or modern medicine, or indoor pluming, or...

Anarchism only works in very small, mostly isolated groups. The larger the society, the more easily people can abuse/rob/kill others and get away with it.

44 posted on 01/14/2002 10:22:47 AM PST by ctdonath2
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