Ascending
  • Fren
    June 3, 2010

    Why do you think that the Brits abolished slavery? One used to be liable for the well-being of one’s slaves, as an underfed and uncared for slave did not work to capacity. Nowadays, one merely pays a wage and to hell with the employees well-being. If employee A drops dead, there’s always more to fill his place. Not so much singing the merits of slavery as making a comparison, mind.

  • Ralph
    June 20, 2013

    Oligarchies provided unity of purpose. Protection is also provided by the subjects, and largely the poor subjects. So in the end people trade freedom for protection because by default not enough individuals will get off their butt to protect one another in the first place.

  • Ralph
    June 20, 2013

    OH. So our oppression by a domestic dictator is a suitable protection from our tendency to be oppressed by a foreign dictator.

  • greg
    February 22, 2017

    All governments are essentially a trade-off between freedom and security. If all people had the power to guarantee their own freedom and security, we wouldn’t need government.

    People getting together to protect each other is, in and of itself, a form of government.

  • greg
    February 22, 2017

    All governments are essentially a trade-off between freedom and security. If all people had the power to guarantee their own freedom and security, we wouldn’t need government.

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