What does government owe you?

[Undertoad]

The government owes me the enforcement of the social contract I make by participating in the state. As long as it has the will of the governed, which in most Western cases stands for a Democratic Republic, it will operate in the manner in which it was established.

As only one of the many, I do not determine what the government does alone, and I am forced by the nature of the social contract to accept what parts of it I do not agree with. Sometimes this seems unjust, and I would prefer that the rules or the system be different. But it's not my call alone, and I have to accept that as a condition of participating in the state.

And without the state and the social contract, I believe I would be severely worse off. If only for the obvious fact that without its defense, my physical area would be taken over by a foreign power and perhaps a very worse government implemented.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

And without the state and the social contract, I believe I would be severely worse off. If only for the obvious fact that without its defense, my physical area would be taken over by a foreign power and perhaps a very worse government implemented.

[anarchy]That is about the only argument I truly buy. It is a terrible thing that we have to establish governments so others don't establish worse governments. Now that we have one there can be no end to the nonsense that left and right wing nuts will pursue so now we have to monitor... think maybe we should have stock-piled Molotov cocktails instead?[/boy]