Level of government power

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Norsefire, Aug 19, 2008.

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What level of power do you think the government should have?

  1. 1- Absolute anarchy, no government whatsoever

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  2. 2- Protects basic rights, but cannot collect or use finances

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  3. 3- Protects basic rights, but absolute capitalism

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  4. 4- Socialist and egalitarian; no particular social structure encouraged

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  5. 5- Socialist capitalist ; protects rights; some level of encouragement for a particular order

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  6. 6- Socialist, egalitarian utopia; protects rights, but no free market

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  7. 7- Socialist; specific social structure

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  8. 8- Protects rights, government guides a certain pathway or order

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  9. 9- Control over major aspects of life and economy

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  10. 10-Absolute totalitarianism, rigid control over every aspect of life

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  1. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    A rather interesting question, what do you think should be the level of government power? Power is not necessarily bad, it's about the way you use it. To me, powerful governments have greater potential to do good, and unfortunately, bad. However, limited governments have low potential for either and are simply inefficient.

    Another thing is, the "us and them" mentality. The government are not overlords, they are part of the people, and made up of the people, and employed by the people. Them being powerful isn't bad, it only means society is powerful and ordered.
    How much power do you think government should have?
     
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  3. superstring01 Moderator

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    What's with your obsession as of late in polling people about what they think?

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  5. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Is that bad? I'm just curious about peoples' political ideologies. If it is bad though I'll stop.
     
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  7. Mr. Hamtastic whackawhackado! Registered Senior Member

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    Humans are generally incapable of making good decisions, to include the ones they make about themselves. Guess which one I picked.

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  8. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Government is made up of people though.
     
  9. Mr. Hamtastic whackawhackado! Registered Senior Member

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    That's why I look forward to Strong Artificial General Intelligence.
     
  10. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    AI can't lead humans, they don't have human feelings, and do not understand human concepts.

    They'd act mathematically and statistically, which is not something a good government would do. People are people, not statistics
     
  11. Mr. Hamtastic whackawhackado! Registered Senior Member

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    The political slogan, Good Government, was used in English-speaking countries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It appears in the Canadian political maxim "Peace, order and good government."

    Like many other political slogans, its meaning is not literal, but was constructed to express a specific partisan stance, rather than being a common phrase which acquired a more obscure meaning by public mental association.

    The phrase came into existence by those political groups who abhorred the results of the expansion of the political franchise, and who wanted to get those people out of office. Examples of its use in America were by all sorts of opponents of the Tammany Hall rule of New York City and by the old Yankee political elite who opposed the transfer of power to Irish immigrants in Boston. It was used in the 1930s by those opposed to the New Deal, and later by the opponents of increased governmental size around the time of the Great Society project. Those who so use this phrase are in turn called by their own opponents "Goo-goos".

    The phrase was used by the Canadians to refer to their understanding that their British heritage (ties to the more experienced "Mother of Parliaments") would enable them to escape falling into such a condition, often called "mob rule". See alsogood governance
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    People are incompetent and should be subject to math and statistics.
     

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