| Munchies said: Government is never the answer. Let society rearrange itself and you'll get the optimal result. Besides, taxing is straight-up looting. No entity should ever pay taxes. |
Government is an example of society arranging itself. Our base social structure (in-out groups) makes it functionally impossible for us to develop a stable large scale society, something that's necessary for a species as a whole to progress at a reasonable pace. Even in our natural group sizes we still opted to have leaders, law keeps, etc, because without at least some basic governing force, things tended to fall apart rather quickly.
I can understand someone arguing against 'big government' (i think that's the term used in the US), and do think the governments of many countries have overstepped their bounds, but having none at all would result in a pretty dramatic fall in the average person's quality of life, especially in a world that's currently entirely dependent on it. Without a central body organizing everything, we'd have no standardized currency, or easy access to water, food, education, power, etc.
