Collective Responsibility -v- Individual Responsibility.

[classicman]

Well I'd just like to ask - if Gov't has a responsibility to its citizens? OR if as a member of an organization, does that organization therefore have a responsibility to me?

[Radar]

Originally Posted by classicman

Well I'd just like to ask - if Gov't has a responsibility to its citizens? OR if as a member of an organization, does that organization therefore have a responsibility to me?

Government absolutely has a responsibility to its citizens but not a responsibility to give them food, clothing, shelter, education, medicine, or morality. The citizens are the creators of the government. Government is their servant, and the citizens are its masters. Government may only have the powers that we, as individuals, on our own if a government didn't exist, and only those which are specifically granted to the government. Government is never above the citizens.