The Government solution is always force

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity." - William Butler Yeats

The State is an old-fashioned concept: Just as the State is prescriptive (it tells us what to do) it is filled with the passionate intensity of knowing what the right thing is to do.

Those who do not claim always to know the right thing to do are not attracted to the idea of a State because we would not claim to know what to do any better than the next person. We would not even claim that a group decision is preferable to a decision made by an individual.

If we allow for uncertainty any action must be predicated on an impulse which must be personal. There is no such thing as a group impulse, we might behave and react according what we think the group might do but that is not similar to something done by an individual.

To act as a group is to take the initiative... but against what? If there is nothing to act against why then take initiative and where is the justification for the State?

If people want to be lead they can choose a leader voluntarily and pay money to them. They don't want the Government which is why it must be forced upon them. The State controls the population.

The Government keeps trying to 'help' the population (or so they claim) but they keep making things worse.

If the Government had genuine solutions they would have been successful in the private sector. The only thing that can be offered by the Government (outside the private sector) is the use of force.

It is crazy to think that force is the best way to solve anything. Government is a crazy idea: We are forced to help those we might prefer not to help. This removes the price incentive and the feed-back of information.

14th February 2009