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Originally Posted by Skybird
I have turned into a zero state or zero government guy, as should have become clear over the past months and years...
I do not trust politicians and states, nor symbols or paroles, and my state of alertness is the higher the greater the group is by which it is triggered. Crowds of people are nothing but herds of cattle, easy to be led around. Also, to me, human intelligence and its resulting behavior and decision-making, and group size, are inversely proportional. By my life experience so far, I have no reason to step away from that assessment.
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I understand that, and even your reasoning. I have myself said that I believe no government is the best government, and the best government is no government. Of course that's also impossible, as people will always want to form a government in order to pass laws to protect themselves from each other.
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On quotes...it becomes difficult to not realise what may or may not be historically original.
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Quite true. I use unproven quotes in my sig all the time. On the other hand I did qualify my statement with "if you're going to use the quote to support an argument", and I stand by that. You used first "one of the early US presidents" and then Jefferson and Franklin, seemingly for the purpose of showing that our Founding Fathers agree with you. The fact that they didn't say that undercuts you argument. Perhaps in this case "Anonymous" might have been better.