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Originally Posted by H2O_Doc
Humans are the most social species on the planet and social norms are part of our nature. As societies grew social norms necessarily grew into law, policies, and formal government, but we've always had something like that and it has been key to human progress.
Getting the size and reach of government IS IMPORTANT, but without governments we'd not have made it far. Not all governments are bad and nor is every act of a government bad.
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I would tend to agree
However less government is always better than more government
The reason why the 2nd exists is to protect us from people who want to protect us from ourselves
I would argue governments have held us back more so than advancing us forward
Remember when practicing science was blasphemy?
Remember when free thinking women were burned at the stake
Remember when the world was flat?
Remember WW2? When the government decides what was good for the people's Deutschland?
Yea I'd rather have ME decide for myself