| Subject: A thousand points of light . . . |
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Rob Dog Bastard
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Date Posted: 05:54:49 06/14/04 Mon
In reply to:
schilda (decided to start a new thread)
's message, "Why does government exist?" on 05:14:37 06/14/04 Mon
Question 1: Speaking in historical terms, groups which formed under strong leadership have always been dominant over those without leadership. In times of strife, well-organized tribes were able to use their collective will to take advantage of the less-organized, and ungoverned.
As the community grows, the need for leadership becomes stronger. A thousand people means a thousand points of view and deciding on a singular voice has allowed such groups to continue to grow - and more importantly - to prosper. Without leadership, communities tend to implode and split into smaller communities (who then follow the same process).
So without this process we would not have the unbelievably large communal organizations we see today, and it is this process which has conditioned us to be led.
Question 2: It's not ourselves we need to be worried about, it's the other people. When you stick a million people within a couple of miles of eachother there is no way to avoid hatred, violence and crime. Humans are animals, and they will act as such. The government exacts a needed control mechanism on people in a largely succesful effort to dampen our urges to simply look out for number one (despite it's effect on numbers 2 through 1,000,000).
Question 3: No government = no international, so I suppose the answer would be that government is necessary simply to have nations, and therefore to have international relations. I think what you are asking, though, is whether we could get along with other loosely organized states without a large, overbearing governmental structure. My answer would be: no.
Again, looking at history, when the going gets rough the rough get going. And they tend to to get going over to their neighbors yard to pillage food. Also, a tribe's natural instinct is to grow and envelop more space/people so your ungoverned masses would eventually be taken in (willfully or not) to a governed system anyhow.
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