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whakahekeheke: re: What's wrong with Statism?
There is one fundamental characteristic that distinguishes the government – the nation-state – from all other human organizations. That characteristic is the legitimized threat of death.
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whakahekeheke reblogged this from squashed and added:
Statism replaces individually voluntary human interaction with a monopoly institution’s impersonal death threat. Statism...
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berezina said:
It tilts the population away from stress and toward ennui, with the risk of becoming a nation of alcoholic poets instead of cocaine-mad bond traders.
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crysthao said:
Statism can’t work if a government in ineffective, and corrupt. If there were say a gov. that had the best intentions of the people & were just, statism would be alright. Perhaps?
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jerklecirque said:
As more control is vested in a central authority, there is less accountability and more corruption at the micro level. A federal state is ill-equipped to put out local fires, thus the quality of the service (education, health care, e.g.) is diluted.
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