Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 19. Oct 2024, 04:15:19
Autres entêtes
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:16:40 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:30:33 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
All government is a self-legalising protection racket.
Would you rather live a life that is, what was the phrase, “nasty,
brutish and short”?
Hobbes ignored centuries of societies that did quite well without a
dictatorial sovereign in charge. Kropotkin may have went to the other
extreme in 'Mutual Aid' but he makes many valid points.
Scale is the real problem. A state like the US with over 300 million
people, half of which would like to see the other half hanging from lamp
poles, is impossible without a highly coercive government.