Do we need government?
As a citizen, do you need your government?
If we need government so much, why'd we hate them at the same time?
If we need government so much, why'd we hate them at the same time?
26-30, M
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BlueVeins · 22-25
Yes. At the very most basic level, we need organized good guys who can use force against bad guys who like to use force, and the most effective way to finance that is through taxation. If you believe that that's true, then on some level you believe in government. Of course government plays a much wider variety of roles in the contemporary era, but to my best understanding, that's how it started out and everything that follows is just an expansion on that.
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We hate our government because it's highly ineffectual at its jobs. Like we need a gov't, but our gov't in particular is bought off by the rich and doesn't really serve the vast majority of its constituency well.
Edit:
We hate our government because it's highly ineffectual at its jobs. Like we need a gov't, but our gov't in particular is bought off by the rich and doesn't really serve the vast majority of its constituency well.
