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Originally posted by Joe Average
Neither do I. But to say we can't do better is absurd.
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Of course I wouldn't and didn't say anything like that. For starters we can convert the rest of the non-liberal democracies to consensual governments. For enders, what is "better"? How do we know what better is?
What is the goal of government? To make some people happy? To make a majority of people sort-of happy? To make some people really happy, some people sort-of happy, and only a small minority really unhappy?
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Of course, during this whole time, we were fighting an increasingly losing battle, to control and accomodate and soothe a larger and larger, more and more complex community. We were trying to take responsibility for, now, the behavior and mores of over 800 people a week, connecting from almost 30 countries of the world. We were frustrated, many of the players were frustrated; the center could not hold.