Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con...
by TulliusCicero on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:25AM
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> Well, I think the wrong people will search power. Always. That means that governments, by nature, will be evil. They will always to some degree do evil.
Sure, but this is trivially true. Individuals will always to some degree do evil. Corporations will always to some degree do evil. Religions will always to some degree do evil. There are no possible groupings of humans that will not to some degree do evil.
> Today, I think the balance is very much that the governments are on the dark side.
An interesting observation, considering the proportion of (functional) democracies is higher than it has ever been. At what point in history were governments not on the "dark side"?
Sure, but this is trivially true. Individuals will always to some degree do evil. Corporations will always to some degree do evil. Religions will always to some degree do evil. There are no possible groupings of humans that will not to some degree do evil.
> Today, I think the balance is very much that the governments are on the dark side.
An interesting observation, considering the proportion of (functional) democracies is higher than it has ever been. At what point in history were governments not on the "dark side"?