{"id":74534,"date":"2020-06-25T06:01:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74534"},"modified":"2020-06-25T06:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:08:21","slug":"human-nature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74534","title":{"rendered":"Human Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In college poli-sci classes, you learn there are two schools of thought about what humans would be like in the absence of government.<\/p><p>Some think humans are Basically Good and government corrupts us, so if we could get rid of government, everything would be wonderful.<\/p><p>Others think humans are Basically Rotten and only government protects us from ourselves. If we got rid of government, our lives would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.<\/p><p>Recent events don&#8217;t answer the question. Did people riot because government pulled back and let them, or because government was so corrupt they had to?<br>Ask yourself this: if we get rid of the police, and the Basically Rotten people are correct, what will take the place of the police? Individual citizens maintaining Eternal Vigilance, dispensing Street Justice? Are we certain that&#8217;s a better solution than a municipal police force? Are we willing to bet our lives on it?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74349\">&#8220;better solution&#8221; our social justice-y betters are splaining to us is Camden<\/a> &#8211; whose new, woke, exquisitely expensive law enforcement organization has improved it from the worst murder rate of any city of any size in the United States to tied with #6 (Kansas City), were it over 200,000 people, which it&#8217;s not;  it may be the  most dangerous <em>small <\/em>city in the US.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In college poli-sci classes, you learn there are two schools of thought about what humans would be like in the absence of government. Some think humans are Basically Good and government corrupts us, so if we could get rid of government, everything would be wonderful. Others think humans are Basically Rotten and only government protects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything","category-liberal-tyranny","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74535,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74534\/revisions\/74535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}