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Comment by PowerElectronix

5 days ago

Wouldn't it make more sense to want less government and more freedom if one doesn't trust people?

If you don't trust individuals, you're going to need an institution (or private security) to protect you from them. Police, laws, etc.

  • But those public institutions only give power to individuals. Bad actors are gonna orbit to those positions and abuse them as much as they can.

    Private security is a different thing, as the power given is just wages in exchange for a good service, so individuals seeking power wouldn't want to "just have a job" at those.

Imagine you grow up in a pedo cult and one day black vans drive on the ranch with FBI agents.

Government bad is such an insufferable American take and I scream every time I hear it.

  • The black vans with federal agents that are snatching people from the streets and killing those that are opposing them pacifically surely scream of government good.