Who watches the watchers?
"If you remove government, who will keep the bad guys under control?"
(A) How good a job is government doing at keeping bad guys under control right now?
(B) If people are so "bad" they need to be ruled, are the rulers somehow exceptions to people being "bad?"
(C) OK so who watches the watchers? And who watches the watcher-watchers?
(D) Do you know what "regulatory capture" is? Where corporations write or influence regulation - through lobbying, campaign contributions, and revolving doors for CEOs/gov officials - designed to favor their company and make it hard for competitors and newcomers to compete in the same industry.
(E) Do you really think just because you can't think of a solution that there isn't one? Why are you willing to settle?
(F) Do you believe everything you were taught in government schools about government was truth?
More on the topic here:
https://steemit.com/voluntaryism/@scottermonkey/law-without-government
A.) A better job than if there was no one doing the job at all. There are a lot of shitty, crooked people in the world who are marginally kept in check with the threat of being caught by the police and locked up.
B.) No the rulers are just as likely to commit crimes of opportunity and corruption as the rest of us. They also need to be checked, and/or have a way where if they abuse power they can be removed.
C.) Governance is not a perfect system and until we can all agree on a unified code of conduct and actually stick to that code of conduct there will need to be "watchers". The race hasn't grown up enough collectively to not need watchers.
D.) Yes, regulatory capture happens. Is it fair? No.
E.) What a vague question, what solution are you referring to?
F.) Definitely no.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply!
The solution I propose is in the link at the bottom of my little article:
https://steemit.com/voluntaryism/@scottermonkey/law-without-government
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