“Would you prefer anarchy? Those who’ve tried it may find it only a way to assure that life is a Hobbesian nightmare: nasty, brutish and short.”
Well, I think it could be somewhat reconsidered. Government is a FAR worse danger than anarchy. Around 260 million people were killed since 1900 by government. Not battle deaths, not air raids, but using the boring civil definition of plain old murder. Add in deaths in wars and its way over 300 million. This literally exceeds what would be expected in a nuclear war.
So throw in around 2000 nuclear bombs set off, governmental murder, wars, and control freak government when they AREN’T busy killing you outright, and I think it can no longer be a truism that government saves us from anarchy.
Other than that the article made some very nice points.
I doubt that the original author, a Mr. Greenburg, (nice Irish name, doncha think?), has ever had his human frame inside a uniform of my nation’s military services.
I doubt, that Mr. Greenburg, has ever had any idea of what that phrase, “Duty, Honor, Country’ has meant to the millions of my fellow military veterans.
I hope, that after printing an article like this, that someone does NOT approach Mr. Greenburg, applying a Case V42 as it was designed to be applied, whispering into Mr. Greenburg’s ears, “Duty, Honor, Country”.