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What kind of president will Obama be?
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19/01/2009 19:46:27
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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19/01/2009 19:14:51
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You made specific remark in regard to blind rioting after a concert, correct? This kind of disturbance has clear associations with animal behavior.

Animals don't riot. Carnivores sometimes hunt in packs because that is their nature.

Rioting usually occurs when people perceive a systematic disadvantage aimed at them. So they push back in whatever way is left to them. If there is a leader like Gandhi, the pushback may be mostly peaceful. If the pushback includes the armed forces, the government may be overturned simply on a General's say-so. But normally it is more expressive than that. Of course there are opportunists who join in for the sake of mayhem and pillage, but usually they are too few to start a riot of their own. Though widespread unemployed is a good start- we all know the saying about idle hands.

how much government could be and/or should be responsible for humanity and could this process have natural limits.

I suppose it depends on what you believe to be the purpose of Government. What is your view about that?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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