From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   There are many people who want communities and society to wield power. This   
   may sound warm and fuzzy until one finds out what that means. We have here am   
   authority that is unelected, unaccountable, unofficial, unbalanced and   
   unchecked - that as such has    
   nothing to keep it from becoming tyrannical and corrupt. And many societies   
   and communities become both.   
      
   They have high levels of incest. They have high levels of domestic violence.   
   They have extreme conformity pressure and am aggressively anti-intellectual   
   attitude. For as long as wrong things are done in the name of community and   
   society that discredits    
   community and society. And that leads many conscientious people to become   
   antisocial.   
      
   Now there are many people who militate against the government and see it as   
   the root of oppression. In Western democracies the biggest abuser isn't   
   government but private citizens and private organizations. That government can   
   go wrong is most certainly    
   true. However it's not the only thing that is capable of doing wrong. And it   
   becomes imperative, in order to avoid tyranny, to check the private entities   
   as readily as the government in order to avoid what amounts to hidden tyranny   
   and corruption.   
      
   It is inevitable that people will form communities and societies. What is not   
   inevitable is that wrong be done in their name. If communities and societies   
   are to be organs of power then it must be official, checked and balanced.   
   Their practices must be    
   written down and subject to a vote. Then we will see less wrong done in the   
   name of society and community and there will be greater respect for both.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)