tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025487935285383656.post2515180452677378244..comments2024-01-03T02:41:53.594-09:00Comments on Patriot's Lament: To the "conservatives"Joshua Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14314841330994831499noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025487935285383656.post-16300804108785829492011-12-17T11:43:46.992-09:002011-12-17T11:43:46.992-09:00I must amend my above statement. Turning people in...I must amend my above statement. Turning people into pharisees is a symptom of the problem that it views the people in the society as means to an end, not ends in themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5025487935285383656.post-60759314981282908652011-12-17T11:09:48.175-09:002011-12-17T11:09:48.175-09:00A conservative social order is necessary to have l...A conservative social order is necessary to have liberty which extends beyond a limited time period as a population engaging in high time preference behaviors will consume its moral and economic capital and collapse. However, a conservative social order is destroyed by the a force based government (state) as it ultimately turns people into Pharisees.<br /><br />It is important to distinguish between social government and state government. Government is necessary as there will always be people who predate upon others, but a force/state based government simply gives them a place to congregate and effectively disarms the non-predatory population against them.<br /><br />All of those limited government types (of whom I was one) need to see Michael Rozeff's piece on The State as an Organization, analyzing force based governments as corporate organization is analyzed. It is NOT light watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGmuyZ-e9QAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com