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I noticed lot's of people were very anti government right up until the moment the parties swapped power. Now suddenly people hated the government before are begging for more intervention.

Conversely a few people I know are suddenly coming around to limiting government like they never considered 2 years ago.

Followed for being one of the few who hates government no matter who currently runs the show.

Nic ⛄ 9mo ago 💬 2

I have a weird relationship with government. I hate it, but I accept that it exists. I just want it to go back to its basic role: protecting our negative rights. To me, that’s its only legitimate purpose. Anything beyond that starts to feel like a power-hungry leviathan trying to grow even bigger.

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Bill Cypher 9mo ago 💬 1

Government is the greatest violator of my negative rights though.

I think government and individual rights are incompatible concepts. People only fail to see it because they have installed a lot of semantic stop signs along that path of questioning.

Nic ⛄ 9mo ago 💬 1

I definitely agree that government is the greatest violator of our negative rights. But isn't it because their mandate now goes beyond negative rights into "positive" rights?

Bill Cypher 9mo ago

It is because at its core government as we know it is without consent of the governed.

Nic ⛄ 9mo ago

Definitely agree on that

j̶a̶r̶e̶d̶ 9mo ago

What's really going to bake your noodle later on is realizing it must paradoxically violate its 'basic role' in order to fulfill it

Nic ⛄ 9mo ago

Isn't that only the case with taxation?