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What Is Government For?
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Collective protection and societal structure. At least in theory.
sovietchild
Well-Known Member
Decision makers I guess. Someone has to do it. What is wrong with those clans who does not have a chief?
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
To govern.
Ostensibly.
Ostensibly.
"Collective protection and societal structure". As Nowhere man said. But here in the USA it seems its purpose is to justify the jobs of politicians by finding new and clever ways to rob the taxpayer.
I would say government exists as a forum for the inhabitants in a given area to engage in politics.
Also:
Providing necessary or beneficial goods and services in cases of market failure, or creating the conditions that allow the market failure to be resolved.
Guess: To decide who owns what, who gets treated how, to give, to take and to provide a community focus.
To crush the citizens....to see them driven before it....& to hear the lamentation of the taxpayers!
Sorry.....me fingers did that without me brain's permission.
Anyway.....
- Provide the country's defense.
- Provide police.
- Provide courts.
- Ensure constitutional civil liberties.
- Regulate where the benefits significant outweigh the costs:
Monopoly prevention, health/safety aspects of products, environmental protection
Sorry.....me fingers did that without me brain's permission.
Anyway.....
- Provide the country's defense.
- Provide police.
- Provide courts.
- Ensure constitutional civil liberties.
- Regulate where the benefits significant outweigh the costs:
Monopoly prevention, health/safety aspects of products, environmental protection
The Emperor of Mankind
Currently the galaxy's spookiest paraplegic
To collect taxes and use them to better peoples lives, provide public services etc; establish communal order, set down laws and raise awareness of them, provide for defence, organise various things. It depends on the government and the people being governed, I suppose.
Frankly I have to much on my plate. Working to raise a family, taking care of my extended family. I can't be negotiating everything I do with a self empowered human. So I give up some of my rights so that I can trade in money and have someone enforce basic rules of property. Everything else I let the government do is just because I keep getting lazier and lazier. I basically just want to collect a good pay check for as little work as possible and buy and do anything I want.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
There's an old saying that if two Englishmen were stranded alone on a desert isle, the first thing they would do would be to vote for the creation of their government.
In anthropology, it is classified as being one of the "five basic institutions" that all societies have, with the others being family, economic, education, and religion.
In anthropology, it is classified as being one of the "five basic institutions" that all societies have, with the others being family, economic, education, and religion.
Decision-making on scales and issues that make direct participation unworkable.
At its best, it also develops and implements necessary policies for the common good, but that seems to have fallen out of fashion.
At its best, it also develops and implements necessary policies for the common good, but that seems to have fallen out of fashion.
To spend the people's money on the people.
jonathan180iq
Well-Known Member
...To maintain and protect a group identity, in spite of it's fluid nature.
Other functions:
- to maintain a monopoly on violence.
- to inspire enough confidence in the people that they're satisfied with the state's monopoly on violence.
- to maintain a monopoly on violence.
- to inspire enough confidence in the people that they're satisfied with the state's monopoly on violence.