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SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense

We have a FORM of government that has the greatest expense and least benefit for that cost and it is no longer a preferable form of government and it inflicts upon us suffering by our creation of it. Government is, in its best of forms, a necessary evil only and the only good it can do is in the equal treatment of all men under the same law without favor nor fervor, but as a mere function of its being. There is no greater good that any government can do without destroying the liberty of man in its doing… when it goes from mere protector of the rights of man by law to seeking to enforce its will upon man and society it turns from a necessary evil to an absolute one.

That started decades ago.

Yet, in this modern age of being able to process information much more quickly, of being able to reach out to our fellow man in an instant, such authority can be withered far, far faster than it appeared if WE are but willing to be BETTER PEOPLE and depend not upon government for help that puts bias and favoritism into the law. Government is not protector of the weak, uplifter of the downtrodden nor is it the source of any good at all, for that is the heavy burden placed upon each and every single one of us to do on our own for the betterment of ourselves and our society. Making money in the service of offering better and cheaper goods and services to our fellow man is not an evil but a good, as it allows more and more to partake of that prosperity via profit in reward for creating such opportunity. We need a simple safeguard against thieves, not a guarantee of prosperity as that cannot be done by any government, ever, no matter how cleverly devised. Simple protection from our fellow man who seeks to take from us property, life and liberty in an unlawful fashion, who seeks mere enrichment of himself and not greater prosperity through creativity and cost cutting, that is a wrong that can and MUST be done by government lest society go lawless. If we had but equality of law and equal treatment under it without preference added save to protection of life and property from those seeking to seize and destroy each, then we would have the greatest benefit that government can offer.

Now we come to the conclusion of what happens when you invest morality in government and seek to make it the provider of good, and that is government becoming an absolute evil. Yet any society has within its power the ability to change or abolish a government that has become the cause of its misery. Short term pain is necessary to get long term gain and the securing of freedom and liberty because no matter what the size nor cost of the pain is, the loss of the freedom and liberty is a crime against man and all mankind by enslaving man to government for the purposes of the few and the ill of all. That is not a choice our children are to make.

It is a choice we must make within ourselves.

If we are to have a better government then we, the people, must make ourselves into better people and do without the outrages and inflicted morals of government upon us as those do us no good at all. Rather the self-inflicted pain of having to lead a good life to do good than the lash and chains of government saying it can do good in your name. No Nation built upon slaves ever did much good for them and that is the cost we must remember if nothing is done now, by us. The pain hasn’t even yet begun, but at least now we can start to clearly identify the source of our misery and call it for what it is: pure evil created from necessary evil by those seeking their own ends to enslave mankind to their ideals. No good has ever come of that.

ajacksonian on May 22, 2013 at 7:17 AM