Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Society is not a big loving care-bear that a bunch of people get together and create in order to have it rain fluffy prosperity down on them. It is a tool, a force, that is only capable when you have many people working together as a group. It'd be hubris for me to say that I know what the definitive goal of society is, but here in america the tool that is society is used via the hand of the republic. The will of the people and the power of the government move it.
Not knowing the purpose of society must make living in it strange. I'm not saying society is a big loving care-bear, but it's purpose must be for those who create it. Society has a goal, it is not the goal. Therefore, the state is there for the people and not the people for the state.