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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:44:23 -0500
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On 3/19/2025 3:14 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:19:21 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/18/2025 6:22 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 3/18/2025 4:55 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>> On 3/18/2025 4:05 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>> On 3/18/2025 2:54 PM, Shadow wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      PS Not all monarchies are "bad" per se. As long as they don't
>>>>>> steal too much and actually care for their "subjects".
>>>>>>      []'s
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree again.
>>>>>
>>>>> But with every system, there are degrees of plunder, death and
>>>>> destruction. Some pursue mass murder, some are horrible, others
>>>>> merely awful, some bearable.
>>>>
>>>> And as always, I'll ask: So what's the solution?
>>>>
>>>
>>> heh heh heh read some Marx! or any political philosopher. The dialectic
>>> is eternal.
>>>
>>> It's perpetual conflict. Inherent to all human societies.
>>
>> But I'd say there are degrees of conflict. And ISTM most ordinary people
>> prefer low level conflict - e.g. debates over whether the speed limit
>> should be lowered - instead of high level quasi-military attacks over
>> who should control the profits from addictive drugs.
>>
>> Some systems of government are more likely to result in low level
>> conflicts of the first type. Others are more likely to result in the
>> second type. And it's certainly true that extreme "governing least"
>> generates more of the latter. Compare, say, England to Haiti. Or
>> Netherlands to Somalia.
> 
> Regardless of the level of conflict, it's always about control.
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

+1

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