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Kasz216 on 06 July 2012
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richardhutnik said:
SamuelRSmith said:
Well, it depends on how you define "work". The Government is very good at some things, and terrible at others.

What most people mean by "Government doesn't work" is that increased Government hinders prosperity. The Government itself works fine, it's just a cancer on everything else.

Actually, people who argue that government doesn't work, will end up saying the government does a poor job at things.  Word is "the private sector can do it better".

Well, what I was saying, when it comes to implementing the will of the people influencing government, it is able to end up getting the needed money, distributing it, and using law enforcement to slow down and hinder things it doesn't like.  It doesn't mean the government can completely stop things, as markets tend to skirt around a lot of government action.

I did end up comparing government to a genie, and this would fit.  And I could go further by connecting genie in this context to the Muslim tradition of genie being jinn (genie comes from that).  Genies would be comparable to that of a demon I believe, and I believe in Muslim tradition. there are stories of how genies would end up destroying people by granting them wishes.  If one has issues with government, it would be that the genie (government) keeps granting the wishes of those who call on the genie to do this, and this set of wishes ultimately destroys the wishes of the people.  Evil versions of the genie would do this.  

So, one can end up arguing the government is a genie that can destroy a nation, if it isn't tempered.


Actually, Jinn are different from demons.   Demons are pretty much only ever  considered evil.  While Jinn are like people, they can be good, or evil or whatever.