How politics destroy harmony and create conflict
Classically Liberal
by CLS
08/19/08
Notice that when people go to the grocery store they don’t fight. I walk up and down the aisles and pick what I want. It may not be what you want but you don’t care. You aren’t paying my bill and I’m not paying your bill. I can respect your selections and you can respect mine. You might shake your head at some items I buy and I might look down on some of your choice. But neither of us is willing to fight over other people’s choices. In politics the opposite is true. Everything is constant conflict. It is constant conflict because the political means of achieving goals means the use of government power to achieve goals. That means we direct the raw power of government against others to secure what we want. We DO take from people the things they own. We DO impose on will on others. If the grocery store worked like politics it would be a hellish experience. We’d have to lobby for the right to buy the doughnut we like...
http://tinyurl.com/6s793y
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CLS
by CLS
08/19/08
Notice that when people go to the grocery store they don’t fight. I walk up and down the aisles and pick what I want. It may not be what you want but you don’t care. You aren’t paying my bill and I’m not paying your bill. I can respect your selections and you can respect mine. You might shake your head at some items I buy and I might look down on some of your choice. But neither of us is willing to fight over other people’s choices. In politics the opposite is true. Everything is constant conflict. It is constant conflict because the political means of achieving goals means the use of government power to achieve goals. That means we direct the raw power of government against others to secure what we want. We DO take from people the things they own. We DO impose on will on others. If the grocery store worked like politics it would be a hellish experience. We’d have to lobby for the right to buy the doughnut we like...
http://tinyurl.com/6s793y
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CLS
rudkla - 21. Aug, 12:45
