26 Sep 11
Originally posted by Trev33All government action is force. If you follow some of the running threads, some here argue that majority support is enough to justify government force. If the law is immoral, is it still justifiable to employ force? How are the real individual rights of minorities as small as one protected?
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7730
Certainly not here anyway.
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Originally posted by Trev33Whether something is a government can be answered by seeing whether it is an entity or alliance of entities that has a monopoly on the use of force against a population. The alliance can be uneasy and fluid, and all such governments have to date, been temporary. The population can be a different set of people than those making up the government, but modern lower-case democratic theory has it that when the people making up the government are chosen directly or indirectly from, by, and for the population, its use of force against that population is justified. IOW, in a democracy, we get the government we deserve.
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7730
Certainly not here anyway.
