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Originally Posted by dda
The first job of any power system is to maintain its own existence. Altruism has very little to do with anything that a government does. Governments tend to grow and gather power to those in control of the government. Seldom does a group come along who has power then relinquishes it willingly.
Government must be watched as one would watch a fox near his hen house. Any people who do not cast a skeptical eye upon those who are governing is putting itself at jeopardy.
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Maintaining "power" doesn't necessarily exclude altruistic behaviour. I think there are plenty of people who'd like to have the power to take money from the rich and give it to the poor for instance. Such people might request that the poor as well as the rich still adhere to certain rules of law and so on, but to suggest that all this amounts to is some scheister trying to "get something back" from you in an underhand way is a bit silly.