Saturday, January 06, 2007
Infinite Regression
Here’s a pro-state argument we are all intimately familiar with:
Bad people like to use force to prey on good people.
Good people require a government to protect them from bad people.
This government, in order to be the final arbiter, must possess overwhelming force.
The logical madness is clear. Since bad people like using force to prey on good people, and the government is the greatest concentration of force in society, it stands to inevitable reason that bad people will use the government to prey on good people.
This is the central problem of Infinite Regression: who will watch the watchers? There is, of course, no rational or political answer
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Bad people like to use force to prey on good people.
Good people require a government to protect them from bad people.
This government, in order to be the final arbiter, must possess overwhelming force.
The logical madness is clear. Since bad people like using force to prey on good people, and the government is the greatest concentration of force in society, it stands to inevitable reason that bad people will use the government to prey on good people.
This is the central problem of Infinite Regression: who will watch the watchers? There is, of course, no rational or political answer
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