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Old 10-22-2005, 10:25 PM
tylerdurden tylerdurden is offline
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Default Re: Government\'s role in our society

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Justice needs to be standardized and consistent. You cannot have a bunch of separate organizations with different rules and systems applying the law. It is perhaps the biggest example of where the government is needed because of a huge amount of consistency required.

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Why does it need to be standardized? You just assert that it's required.

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The Police Force is the same. Plus, it is not exactly a service that you want people to have to buy, considering that they need to solve murders where people will not know who died, as well as breaking up gangs and drug rings where there may not be a lot of complaintants.

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If there's no central state, there won't be any drug rings.

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Roads require central planning. The government is central planning. Yeah, central planning is better when central planning is required. It would be near impossible to build interstate highways through the private sector considering the size, scope, and magnitude of such a project, and the amount of support required.

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OK, here you're at least providing a concrete example of why central planning might be desirable. What magic does government have that makes it the only entity that can build roads? Government *can* do it more easily, since it can simply steal whatever land it wants to build a road on, but surely you're not suggesting that government is more efficient at building roads, or better at deciding where to build roads, are you?

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My examples are very clear cases where government will do a much better job than the private sector based on the idea that a single, combined effort is required to build them.

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Clear? It's not clear at all from what you've provided.
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