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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Including the government. In fact, that's what government is supposed to do.
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Is it? I don't really feel that's a very good description of what the norwegian government does. In my life, it's been a very nurturing influence, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on giving me a free education to become biologist, some of which I did up in the arctic which included expensive scooter trips, cruises around the islands and a trip up to the polar ice cap. If I get sick, I will be provided with a (near) free health care. When I become a parent, I can have a paid leave from work to take care of my child. I've never experienced that the government has excercised violence against me.
Exploiters (embezzlers, robbers, child molesters) are punished and removed (temporarily) from society. I don't really mind. Attempts are made at rehabilitating such people when that makes sense.
The thing about a democratic society is that you can speak up if you think something is not right and help change things for the better. Isn't it better to work with the system rather than just be nihilistic about it?