Good point. So really it's an inevitability that people want governments even if governments aren't exactly a good idea. I don't know if there's ever going to be a point in human history where we learn from this mistake. I think it's just a fundamental human need or desire to have some order. Too much order and it's evil. Too much freedom and you have no direction. So really, isn't it inevitable that we have a government? And if so, what ought it do for people? Because if that's not defined and enforced, then it'll strictly do things to people. It's probably a good idea for the government to be as big or small as absolutely necessary and only do things for people that only a government could do. Which might be a military. Might be something else.
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No such thing as too much freedom.
The problem with defining and enforcing what a government should do is that it never lasts forever. Even if you can get everyone to agree, which you can’t, the laws and rules will eventually be violated and changed. The constitution tried to define what the government can and can’t do but governments always overstep.
Pretty based take ngl. Well the problem with believing the axiom that there can never be too much freedom is that it invites too much chaos. So much that there's no direction. Unless we define freedom as the perfect harmony between order and chaos, the freedom with direction. Which then scratch the comment about order and chaos.
But it all still begs the question of whether people will really learn. Yes time and new people change what is and isn't established. Government will always overstep. If it weren't for the problem of violence, threat of harm, war, and foreign governments, then we wouldn't feel the need for government.
Honestly if everyone was raised to learn how to fight physically and verbally, everyone owned weapons, knew how to use them, and everyone understood the responsibility, respect, and caution required when using such weapons, then we might not need to outsource fighting to a big centralized federal government military. Perhaps it's just we've regressed to such a point where such traditions aren't as common and we've gotten to the point where we want to abstract away the fighting to someone else in fear. 🧠