john hull wrote: > Since governments (as we tend to think of them) came > into being well after humans did, and since it is more > interesting to assume that people are rational and do > things for rational reasons, shouldn't that imply that > governments serve a good purpose?
It might, if any government existed which was in fact created by the people as a whole; if real people's behavior were guided by global rather than local optimization. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
