Pay no attention to that gun behind the curtain

[lucylovebiscuit]

I've been thinking about the government a lot lately - it's role and purpose - and I've come to a pretty startling conclusion.

The government is a weapon of coercion that is aimed by many different people, lobbies and factions in order to force others to do what they want. Some people aim it for the appropriation of other folks' hard earned money,

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[theory_of_chaos]

The result of people having the freedom to choose is that, en masse, they will inevitably choose a certain degree of slavery. If I were more clever I could try to argue how that relates to the social contract, and a pragmatic assessment of just what it takes to get 6 billion people to occupy the same rock with only the amount of tearing each other to pieces that we already have, but hell, I just got out of bed