Re: more electoral defeats for the feudalists

ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx <ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Kolker wrote:
Peter Bjørn Perlsø wrote:



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

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

Which gets us back to neccessary evil.

Anyone who things government is inhernetly good shold read the first
five pages of -Common Sense- by Tom Paine.

Bob Kolker

Necessary != inherently good. Government is neither inherently good
nor inherently evil. All concentrations of power, be they in
government or private institutions are, however, inherently _risky_.

Hear, hear.

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