Re: more electoral defeats for the feudalists

ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx <ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not really. I'm not sure how anyone could seriously suggest that
government IS society as opposed to an AGENT of society. Clearly there
are members of society who are not members of the government, so the
two cannot be equivalent.

Which is why it is silly to allude that there is anything but the
faintest of connections between the two.



"Government is a necessary institution, the means to make the social
system of cooperation work smoothly without being disturbed by violent
acts on the part of gangsters whether of domestic or of foreign origin.
Government is not, as some people like to say, a necessary evil; it is
not an evil, but a means, the only means available to make peaceful
human coexistence possible."
--Ludwig von Mises

That must been in the early years of Mises. :=)

From the standpoint that coercian is principally bad, it follows that
government is also bad.

--
regards , Peter B. P. - http://titancity.com/blog
http://markedspartiet.dk, http://macplanet.dk
http://siad.dk
.

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