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Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back by snowwrestler on Thursday February 13, 2014 @03:30PM (#7234074)
Government exists for all animals. It is an immutable fact of the universe. Ants have government. Termites have government. Naked mole rats have government. Wolves and caribou have government.

It's not up to us. All we can do is decide what structure the government will take.

Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back by whatevsbro on Thursday February 13, 2014 @04:23PM (#7234470)
> Government exists for all animals. It is an immutable fact of the universe. Ants have government. Termites have government.

Wow. At least you're being original :p

> All we can do is decide what structure the government will take.

Actually, as long as we have rulers, we can't even do that. You may be aware of the US quickly turning into a nasty police state. Do you think the people being "governed" had a say in that?

The only possible solution is to have no rulers.

Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back by snowwrestler on Thursday February 13, 2014 @08:02PM (#7236053)
Saying "let's get rid of rulers" is like saying "let's get rid of the ends of a piece of string." It's a logical impossibility. All you can do is replace rulers.
Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back by whatevsbro on Saturday February 15, 2014 @05:17PM (#7245653)
All it takes is for the belief in political authority to dispel. Unfortunately, that's a massive change from where we are today.
Re:Today is The Day We Fight Back by snowwrestler on Monday February 17, 2014 @03:36PM (#7254334)
And how does massive social change come about? Via organized campaigns. Which have leaders. Who become the new rulers if they succeed.

In the last century the Chinese and Russians collectively agreed to give up concepts of property and privilege for the betterment of all. Except, some of them only pretended to do that. So they ended up with everyone else's property and privilege.

It's not hard to convince every single person that they should not be ruled. It's impossible to convince every single person that they should not rule. There's always someone who thinks they could do it better if they were in charge.