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I will agree with choice 2, everyone has their own peception of what good government is, and even if they dont propganda will make you think you have the best one.
by ABC on Mon Jan 24, 05 12:47pm
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Government systems definitely need to adapt to cultures. Different societies and cultures have different needs.
I think it has to adapt, as the population changes.
However, I would also disagree with the implication that societies/ governments evolve towards what is best for its people -- I suggest they evolve towards what is best for those who obtain and hold power.
But in theory, not always in practice, we strive to better our government. That's all I'm really asking. It's more of a philosophical question.
Second choise.
One of the superusers here posted a quote, whose I can't recall, relating to progress being made by the undisciplined man. And there are a LOT of undisciplined men out there. It'll take a long time for society to catch up in the adaptation process.
That would be Inspectah_Deck, I believe.
Well, if is philosophical: That's why they say democracy is the best! Unlike totalitarian gov, democracy doesn't claim to be perfect so it can be improved. My opinion is that any democratic form of government can be improved by a continues "fight" between state institutions and the organization of the civil society. In this way the state,as an autonomous social organism, can be protected against any form of anarchy, without suffocating the individual freedom of the people.
Wrongo Cathexis. Just look at American government today. People are living overall better lives than they were some 200 years ago when out country started out. Our govt now give us good protection, we have our civil rights, and we a lot more perks than other smaller countries. Employment rate here is good so people can get jobs. If you are basing your argument on having to pay taxes for our rights and our perks thats too bad. Our government is doing a hell of a job caring for common man.
I most certainly believe that if you leave a record unattended and it skips it will just keep on skippin. But then you realize the skippin is just comfortable conformity.
The whole notion of "perfection" is a pretty murky thing. It reminds me of Plato's world of ideas and forms. I mean, if you got to perfect, where could you go from there? This perfect notion seems to require a finite reality, a sum total of things, where reality seems to me necessarily unbeginning, unending and boundless in all directions. I don't think there is a topmost or bottommost, so perfect is a state of mind. It's like Buddha said about life, "like a lavender mist on the wind" or some such. Things are perfect for a moment, then it's gone, and another takes its place, and so on. What a glorious reality!
There is no state of "perfection." Such a state or condition implies a totality: a sum total of perfection. Because we exist in an unbeginning, unending, reality which is boundless in all directions, there is no possible highest, lowest, or most perfect. It is just a wonderful (or terrible) cosmic sandbox, and you are free to play (in and out of countless dimensions) forever.
More perfect, griffon. Or best possible.
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