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What do you think of Thomas Paine's view of government as a necessary evil?
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∙ 11y ago
It's a reasonably self-evident assertion. So far, there's never been a government that didn't to some extent, sooner or later, abuse at least some of its citizens; since the task of a government is to protect its citizens, this makes government "evil". Yet there's never been a human society which managed to function without government, which seems to make it "necessary".
Thus, a necessary evil.
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