Comments on: Good Government : Nice, But Unnecessary http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2005/03/28/good-government-nice-but-unnecessary/ The Sweet Release of Reason Tue, 22 May 2012 20:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bernard http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2005/03/28/good-government-nice-but-unnecessary/#comment-4989 Bernard Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:19:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=678#comment-4989 'The more effective, efficient, trustworthy, non-corrupt, credible, etc. a government is, the less you will need government.' Interesting post, but I'm not sure about this sentence. The fact that government is most effective as a credible threat keeping people in order rather than when trying to establish that credible threat is pretty well known, but it doesn't therefore follow that you need government less when it's there, just that when security needs are met they tend to be taken for granted (eg. the fact that a corporate network hasn't been hacked in the last year doesn't mean that they don't need a firewall as much). ‘The more effective, efficient, trustworthy, non-corrupt, credible, etc. a government is, the less you will need government.’

Interesting post, but I’m not sure about this sentence. The fact that government is most effective as a credible threat keeping people in order rather than when trying to establish that credible threat is pretty well known, but it doesn’t therefore follow that you need government less when it’s there, just that when security needs are met they tend to be taken for granted (eg. the fact that a corporate network hasn’t been hacked in the last year doesn’t mean that they don’t need a firewall as much).

]]> By: Bernard http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2005/03/28/good-government-nice-but-unnecessary/#comment-4988 Bernard Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=678#comment-4988 'The more effective, efficient, trustworthy, non-corrupt, credible, etc. a government is, the less you will need government.' Interesting post, but I'm not sure about this sentence. The fact that government is most effective as a credible threat keeping people in order rather than when trying to establish that credible threat is pretty well known, but it doesn't therefore follow that you need government less when it's there, just that when security needs are met they tend to be taken for granted (eg. the fact that a corporate network hasn't been hacked in the last year doesn't mean that they don't need a firewall as much). ‘The more effective, efficient, trustworthy, non-corrupt, credible, etc. a government is, the less you will need government.’

Interesting post, but I’m not sure about this sentence. The fact that government is most effective as a credible threat keeping people in order rather than when trying to establish that credible threat is pretty well known, but it doesn’t therefore follow that you need government less when it’s there, just that when security needs are met they tend to be taken for granted (eg. the fact that a corporate network hasn’t been hacked in the last year doesn’t mean that they don’t need a firewall as much).

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