01-24-2018, 10:49 PM
(01-24-2018, 10:21 PM)nebraska Wrote: The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
Liberty depends upon the rule of law. The alternative to rational justice is vendettas and lynchings which are local displays of power over people. Evil is usually quite unpopular when it is exposed, whether it be despotism, cruelty, or corruption.
OK, few people want the government micro-managing every aspect of life. But that is not to say that we want people driving northbound on the southbound lanes of a freeway.
The complexity of life relates closely to population density. If you take your dog for a walk and it craps on a cornfield or a cattle pasture, you likely dace few consequences. If you let your dog crap on a sidewalk, then there might be consequences. There is much more regulation in New York City than there is in the thinly -inhabited steppes of Wyoming, and this is reflected in political life.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.