I really don't feel like being all that ground-breaking today. Just drag up one thought and re-iterate what a lot of other people have probably thought or said or wrote for thousands of years. And here is one already.
"Any government poweful enough to give you everything you want is also powerful enough to take away everything you have. Therefore the proper function of the state is to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens... nothing more. That government is best that governs least."
Sounds great! But is it true?
As a collectivist
MOST people do not know what is best for them. And over the years a countries government will set up laws to protect people from themselves. From having guns too easily because people seem to kill themselves with guns. From having drugs like cocaine or heroine because people ruin themselves on addiction. From any number of things because people screw up all the time.
Answer
But the more government does for people, the less they do for themselves. The more dependent they are on others.
And in the opposite corner as a... I don't even know... libertarian?
SOME people do not know what is best for them. And if you let them make mistakes these people get smarter, or others get smarter by their example. And the end result is more and more competent people in the world as the most competent are allowed to excell... not pay for others mistakes.
Answer
But the system is heartless and so many people fall through the cracks.
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