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>Parents are supposed to be caregivers, employers are supposed to be source of opportunities, and governments are supposed to protect and safeguard the state and its people. This is a bizarrely naive worldview. In democratic countries the government's role is to implement a system of governance decided on by the people. The whole idea behind having a system of "checks and balances" is to prevent the government from u…
I never said this, what I said is that is that societal figures of power exist with a benevolent purpose and should not be perceived as evil. The system of checks and balances on the power of the state can be seen in two lights: 1) as a way to prevent tyrannies from arising or 2) as a way to let the good actors freely act within well defined boundaries. I simply believe the second point of view to be much more fruitf…
Societal figures of power exist with a necessary purpose - there is nothing benevolent about them.