Delete comment from: Captain Capitalism
(Cliff Arroyo)
"What arrogant idiot decided it was OK to have the government start intervening in people's affairs?"
It's called human nature and libertarians are often just as ignorant of it as liberals.
Your ideal state of government is no more possible than the dictatorship of the proletariat.
All human societies find ways to meddle in the lives of their members (to the general approval of even those who get meddled with a lot). Those who couldn't stand it became wanderers or hermits (or giant pains in the asses who would be shunned or ultimately killed).
Human evolution has been shaped so that those who care about and meddle in the lives of other group members had more reproductive success than rugged individuals going their own way.
The larger and more complex the group the more the meddling. If you want to change that go back in time 100,000 years or so and find different hominids to be descended from.
Sep 19, 2012, 10:17:16 AM
Posted to Original Cardinal Sin of Keynesianism