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  1. 03-22-2018, 20:29 #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
    This is the old crazy idea. I respect my friends more than my enemies and even if not, someone I fear I want to get rid of, someone I respect as a friends or as a good example I want to support.
    The fear-based approach is merely the last option for those who fail with the other approach....losers holding on to a straw with force...
    Even Machiavelli acknowledged it was better for a leader to be loved than feared.

    The most stable political systems are so because the people "buy in" to the system enough to put up with its foibles for the greater long term stability, freedom, and advantages it begets. As has been written by wittier folk than I, truly effective governments derive "their just power from the consent of the governed."

    Neither fear, nor affection, is the strongest and longest lasting approach to garnering that consent.

    Sic transit Trump.
    "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman

    "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken

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