The fundamental role of government is to ensure that there is enough grain in the public storehouses to feed everyone should next years crop fail.
The proper role of government is to ensure that an individual actually does stop swining his arm before in contacts your nose.
The necessary role is more complex. Government has to be the biggest baddest gang on the block so that it can intimidate the other gangs into not killing and eating the peasants (who grow the grain mentioned above).
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Fundamental, proper and necessary roles
Date: 1/11/10 20:00 (UTC)The proper role of government is to ensure that an individual actually does stop swining his arm before in contacts your nose.
The necessary role is more complex. Government has to be the biggest baddest gang on the block so that it can intimidate the other gangs into not killing and eating the peasants (who grow the grain mentioned above).