Very funny - the take away is Dan Klein's comment below.
Daniel Klein February 5, 2010 at 9:28 am
In many cases, government is like a gun, and statism is like the agent firing the gun. Governments don’t kill, statism does.
What libertarians should be against is statism, not government per se. Most agents of government are relatively statist, but not all.
What keeps government from being worse than it is is not so much any democratic mechanism, but the measure of decency and enlightenment nestled within each agent within its structures. It is primarily as a lattice of not-too-terribly-unenlightened despots that government works as well as it does.
Government has at least one important and necessary function: Dismantling other governmental functions.
A Message from the Great Dr. Ron Paul
18 hours ago
No comments:
Post a Comment