Where our country is headed...
This is a post that I found on one of the political blogs that I have been following for Mr. Fletcher. I'm not saying that I entirely agree with this, but I think it should be said that he has quite a few good points. Check out the link, see what you think, and then feel free to express your own opinions.
This was posted by: "The Amazing Amanda" (at this time in history) *1:57 PM*
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This guy definitely makes some good points. For instance, he says that business with no government intervention at all will fail, and that is absolutely right. If the government just totally stepped out of all business, a few super-power monopolies would rise up, buck their rates, and destroy the economy.
The principal of "diversity vs disturbance," which we are studying in Ecology right now, applies squarely to this idea. Take the number one example my professor used.
An experiment was done with barnacles and sea stars. There were a ton of types of barnacles in this location, and sea stars -- which were predators and ate the barnacles. The hypothesis was that if all sea stars were removed, the barnacles would not be preyed upon, and therefore diversity within the species would flourish.
When the sea stars were removed, however, it turned out that the variety of barnacles actually reduced to only two or three species. Why?
With no ecological pressure exerted against them by the sea stars, the barnacles were able to live, grow, and reproduce without restriction. Competition between the species became very high as they fought for space and resources, and eventually the species began killing each other off. In the end, only a couple strong species remained -- and these in great numbers.
Consider how this principal applies to business and government intervention.
The part I couldn't agree with was his reference to conservatism as a degrading force to society in regard to government. I believe that this statement was highly opinionated and not very objectional at all. Yes, there are things that need to change as the time changes -- but there are also things that have worked for a long time, and will probably continue to work for a long time.
Government regulation of morals IS necessary to some point. If we didn't have a government that said murder was bad, that taking drugs was bad, that stealing was bad, etc etc., we'd basically be in a state of anarchy. You can view these laws as an infrastructural function of society, created only to enable the orderly interaction of humans, but laws are basically government-sanctioned morals. If the government was sociopathic in nature, it wouldn't CARE if we killed each other, stole from each other, and whatnot.
Still, a very interesting read.
12:06 PM
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