•  kool_newt   ( @kool_newt@beehaw.org ) 
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    1 year ago

    As another commenter mentioned, the government (the state) is not a person and cannot care.

    Government and the state are tools. The thing about some tools is that they are really only useful towards certain ends. The state is fundamentally a tool of maintaining and expanding power. While it’s possible for those with power to do some good things, their overall effect is to allow the domination of most by the few.

    Government requires a state to function, a state as in a subset of the population claiming exclusive acceptable use of force in a given area.