Topic: Government and it's role in society (Read 41 times)

The idea of government was to create an organized body that could well manage the common resource for the overall prosperity of the people and also protect the citizens from both internal a d external aggressions. But what were experiencing in contemporary governance is a practice away from the real aim of government creation.

Now people in government pursue personal intest as against the common interests and when the people that gave them the power try to revolt the government uses the military and other forces to bend the people to their knees it's nothing to be what Thomas Hobbes theorized about government and the people.

Governments should be responsible for the basic organization of society, so people wouldn't live in a complete anarchy where the toughest rule and win by usage of physical force and threats.

However, governments end becoming bigger and more determining on people's lives than it should be. And it's due to the fact a group of people who reach power use their influence and authority to create privileges for themselves, which are sponsored involuntarily by everyone else.

This model and concept of society we live is unfair because of that. However, instead of focusing on key points like this, people are distracted fighting by useless and subversive agendas. In fact, this is the central goal of such agendas: to get people distracted, so they don't think neither ocuppy their time with effective and logical solutions to make life fairer and happier.

the idea of creating a government that takes care of the resource of a group of people and in returns solve the problem of the people who appointed or elected them to take up those leadership position is a genuine one that ordinarily ought to be one of man's way of easily achieving most of her goals but unfortunately, we can't tell if such goal is met but rather, we set up a government that end up being more powerful that the people that gave them the right to take care of the resources they now manage by virtue of the position given to them by the people in the society.

if the government had done half of the role, she is supposed to be carrying out in the society, what is required of the citizens would be easily achieved. the issues is that the government have gotten power through the security agencies to ensure that the citizens pay taxes and stay obedient to the laws and of the society but when we flip the table and talk about the angle of the government doing what they are supposed to be doing like the provision of infrastructure, security of citizens, quality education and creation of job opportunity it becomes difficult to hold them accountable because they through the security and the money and power they have acquired through the position they occupy make use of it to protect themselves from the public access

The government should be responsible for the total wellbeing of its citizens. It should be ensure that the majority of the citizens could afford their basic needs and infrastructure. However, I never knew the importance of security until our country began to face a high rate of criminal activities. The rate of armed robbery, kidnapping, terrorism, and other violent was increasing in my country and I understood that no country can prosper in an insecure environment. Local businesses began to close down, tourists stopped visiting and many multinationals began to relocate to neighboring countries. Fear and intimidation became the order of the day and citizens became indirect prisoners since they could not move freely.

If the government can secure lives and properties, they have solved the most important problem. With peace and stability, any country will gradually develop. Our role as individuals in a country is to always perform our obligations which include paying of tax, assisting the police to fight crime, voting or being voted for in elections, serving in the armed forces, etc..

Government was set up primarily to govern a particular environment or society it is found in doing this it's empowered with the responsibility of protecting life and property in the society and create a good environment where business and other economic activities can take place and strives. It should be noted that individuals members of a society has a big role to play for them to be successful in any society so the best government can do is to make sure that her citizens are safe and secure then creating a good atmosphere where citizens Can engage in meaningful economic activities for the over all development of the society
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