And you wonder why you can't hire enough good employees, and why there's a mismatch between skills and jobs. It takes a village to raise a child. The village can provide an invaluable service in reinforcing parenting decisions.
But not a government.
We can raise our children just fine without a nanny state.
Alternatively any group of humans above the Dunbar number will be constrained to use blunt rule based systems, but below that you can take the circumstances and the persons involved into account.
Combine that with the coercion of government and you have a strong attraction for such "leaders".
I just interviewed a CS grad from a great school with 10 years experience who could barely write a line of code let alone do something useful for my company. The village didn't do him much good from where I sit.
It fascinates me that people think the government is some kind of replacement for the village. I grew up in a community. The community gave me access to many things but never coerced me to participate. I chose what I wanted to do.
What kind of childhood did you have where you think the same people that require you to act a certain way at the threat of violence should be your saviours?
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/108/5/1222.ful...
Violent media is not the problem.