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Comment by throwmeariver1 | Hacker News Reader

It's easier to put out one fire instead of thousands.

California would like a word.

(Read that literally or politically, however you choose, but I don’t relish a “it’s completely out of control; all we can do is pray for rain or the winds to shift and hope it burns itself out while sparing 90% of the people...” scenario on a world scale, whether in politics or wild-fires.)

California has the exact same problem I described it's not that the overall governance is the problem it's usually on local levels like the San Francisco DA or the LA county labour board...

Have you considered the possibility that there are just a lot of people who want different things from each other and from you?

By the time you get to a group of citizens the size of San Francisco or Los Angeles, are you really going to benefit from me weighing in from Massachusetts, Anna weighing in from Rotterdam, or Jiang from Shanghai on what crime or homeless problems the city is facing or how tall buildings should be allowed to be in some part of the city? That’s not just a few wackos running for a local dog catcher position.

There is a net positive for the rule of majority instead of the individual rule. You can see it just now in russia.

Another possible view is that a large part of the problem in Russia is the massive, unchecked centralization of power and distributed, smaller governments would be better in this case.

The centralization is not the problem, the problem in Russia is that a single individual wants to force its will over the ones of many. People are scared to voice their opinion and you are painting it as something desirable. Talk about individualism. What a lot of people and you miss to understand is that the majority is made up of individuals it's not an abstract mass it's a lot of real people that collectivly tell you to get lost.

Could you point to the words that I've used which left an impression that I think anything about Putin or Russia's recent actions are something desirable?

If I've somehow left that impression, I wish to correct it.

Exactly, and at the local level you only need to put out 1 fire: the one affecting you.

This is fine.

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