Let me revise my last post. I agree with you: only a fool would put faith in the goodness of mankind. This is why I don't put faith in the goodness of mankind. Yet, you prefer to put nearly ALL (or at least a great deal) of the power into the hands of these people we can't trust.

In what way does that make sense? Are you really telling me that the few people who run the government are so drasticly unlike the rest of humanity that they do not pursue their own selfish goals? And, you might bring up the fact that those who govern are elcted by the people, thus ensuring that only the good guys get into office. Well, those who do the electing are only looking out for themselves; we have the same problem.

I, at the very least (and I do not think that an anarchic society would work this way) espouse a system in which "every man for himself" is the social order; you, however, want to concentrate great power in the hands of a few. This is idiotic. We have seen what big states do to people. The USSR killed many; Hitler's Germany killed many; the Spartans enslaved many; the US dropped to Atomic bombs on innocent people. None of these things have been done on this scale by anyone in the private economy. We talk of the horrible tragedies of Virginia Tech, and Colombine, but the deaths here can't hold a candle to the death and destruction inflicted at the hands of large states.

Do you think maybe you could reply to me this time? If I have made any little errors, please mention them, but also reply to the rest of my post.

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