Government Explained

Um, she said it was worth the ten minutes. Chill.

This says it all. Well worth the 10min listening time.

Obviously better things for humanity? How is war better for humanity? How are prisons better for humanity? How is theft better for humanity?

It's better for SOME people and WORSE for others. It supposedly benefits the majority at the expense of everybody else. It is a system for picking winners and loosers arbitrarily. It is one group of people imposing their will on another group of people through brute force, and calling it "good" because of nonsense claims of it being "better for humanity".

Please explain how this violates the law of non-contradiction.

It seams to me that an insitution which takes money by force in order to protect people's property violates the law of non-contradiction. Or the idea that war is necessary to establish peace, or that violence must be used to keep people safe, or that forcibly restricting people's ability to decide what to do with their own bodies, or where they can travel somehow constitutes the protection of their freedom.

Funny, I thought this was the most elegant, concise, and accurate descriptions of the inherent problems with our governmental system I've seen in a long time.

I can't help but thinking that anyone who doesn't agree is on the government's payroll and doesn't like to be confronted with the uncomfortable reality of how they get their paycheck.

humans are selfish? You mean that all the individuals in the world want to pursue their OWN goals rather than YOURS? How selfish of them. They should be more selfless, like you, who wants to impose your will on everybody else, to show them how charitable and generous you are.

There's no such things as collectives in the real world. They are not objective, but rather subjective concepts. The reason why "we" become monsters is because INDIVIDUALS become monsters when they ACCEPT collectivist ideologies. "Groups" don't do anything. Individuals do things in the name of groups, but it's all just in their minds - an excuse to do something which we could not justify without the delusions of collectivist thinking.

I don't think there are many people other than sociopaths that think the weaker members of society should not be protected. The issue is force. When you use force against somebody else (say, the weaker members of society that you mentioned), it is clearly wrong. However, that's exactly what a government is - a group of people that use their strength to force others (weaker, individual members of society) to obey them.

This is more "exploitative" than offering to pay them for voluntarily work.

A mathematically perfected economy? What mathematical formula would you use to decide what I do with my time, and what method would you use to enforce your decision?

Power attracts those that seek it.

Concentrations of power over others attract those that seek power over others to control them. Power doesn't necessarily corrupt, but it does attract the corruptible.

In some communist countries, their taxes paid for food, too. Does that mean that, if government wasn't providing these services, they would have starved? (Actually, people starve under communism because the government does such a horrible job allocating resources)

Don't confuse the things we need (emergency services, roads, education) with a single provider of those things we need, especially if that provider collects money by force and holds a monopoly on the service.

What are you talking about? What's the matter with you?