So... you're comparing governments that almost always have epic fail policies with companies that rarely do? Great argument.
sorry, but i live in a country with pretty good roads & public transport, rockstable electricity, water quality above that of most bottled water brands, close to 100% dsl avaibility, health insurrance, low crime rate and mostly free education.
there is still lots of problems and fuckups i can blame the government for. but all in all i cant call our government an epic fail and i am sure companies wouldnt have done better. in fact, i can see it in the usa that they dont.
Google's motto was "don't be evil" until they went public. Then they did just that.
Companies can be good. It's corporations that tend to be like governments. Again, you're comparing something with has the possibility, perhaps even a tendency to be good (a company) with something that is almost always bad (a government).
you just claim its like that. i disagree.
Governments that distribute ANYTHING are inherently bad. The ideal government is one that protects the rights of the people, nothing more. Anything else leads to self serving career politicians.
i dont think i understand what you talk about. so the country is law, judge, police and thats it? zero infrastructure?
if thats what you mean, id rather pass on it. i dont really want to live in the wilderness.
I was referring to organized religion. Most as corrupt and inept as most governments and corporations are.
I'm talking about godliness, not religious zeal. The various wars fought over religion have nothing to do with religion, it's the intolerance of other people's beliefs that causes it.
while i have no problem with people being spiritual, every religion that claims some absolute truths is intolerant by design.
There is no right answer outside of inherently good individuals.
Corporations aren't inherently evil, it's the people that run them, and the greedy "give me something for nothing" shareholders.
Governments aren't inherently evil, it's the career politicians that lie through their teeth and sell themselves to the highest bidders.
Unions were created to protect employees from "evil" employers. Now we have self serving unions that cause more problems than the solution they are supposed to provide. It's not the union itself, however, it's the greedy self serving individuals in it.
Guns aren't bad, it's the individual that pulls the trigger.
Organized religion isn't inherently bad, it's the individuals who seek to put themselves between people and god.
Only animalistic "carnal" man is evil. Only once man (generalistic term, not sexist) realizes his true nature will things change.
i dont do "good" and "evil". everybody acts and judges from his own perspective and thinks he is the good guy. ethics are made by man and contain no inherit truth. which one we choose is not a decision between good and evil but a choice about the society we would like to live in. take abortion for example. most people argue about when life "officially begins" and stuff like that. to me that doesnt matter at all. i prefer pro-choice, because women are living, conscient and acting people and their rights have an immediate effect on the society i live in, while the existence or nonexistence of rights for a fetus has no consequence at all. there is no right and wrong in that decision. just actions and consequences that i deem desirable or undesirable.
and yes i know that a worldview like that is pure evil to any (likely religious) person with eternally codified moral rules.
