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Originally Posted by Arion45
I think you missed the part that if a government is only there to protect life, liberty, and property and will not aggress against others that try to fill it's role then you have a voluntary society. In addition, this is not really a government anymore because it does not have the monopoly of force in a given geographical area. But if the government uses force to limit others from competing with it then, it is not longer only protecting life, liberty, and property ...

Another exchange worthy of posting here:

Originally Posted by Travlyr

Limited constitutional government is possible and good. Ron Paul shows us how.

Agreed, but which constitution? The US Constitution is a beautiful document in many respects, but very weak and flawed in many others, and in considerations of political power the weaknesses become the critical elements, not the strengths. This is due to the twofold disadvantage of human nature: the tendency to apathy and that to dominate by the few ...

The question of just and equitable governance may in some ways be simple and straightforward, but in many ways it is a Gordian Knot of conflicting entanglements.

The following exchange occurred in this thread. I thought perhaps it worthy of reposting here, as it touches upon some of the difficulties associated with the practical aspects of governing.

It just occurs to me that there are two fundamental aspects of "government" function, whether it be public ...

Another poster asked most plaintively:

Why do I have some mystical responsibility for those on SS, when I never consented to the program?

To which I responded:

Socially speaking, it is socially incumbent upon you by virtue of your social bond and the social debt to which it socially indentures you to help socially realize the social mandate of social justice through the socially universal social implementation of social equality, leading directly to the social justification

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Greetings once again.


In the essay titled "What Is Freedom?", mention is made of a small set of foundational principles upon which all free living amongst each other is based. I wrote that sharing a common political basis does not entail a morbid lockstep mentality wherein people are forced to live a one-size-fits-all life. Quite the contrary, all that is required is the acceptance and practice of a very small set of fundamental propositions ...