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Comment by clienthunter | Hacker News Reader

I am so sick of this bullshit.

Government has to go. We gave it a good few hundred years to prove itself, and it can't.

There has always been and will always be government. From village elders to Persian Emperors, the Roman Senate to fascist dictators. People seem to like to form them, spontaneously, and if there is none in place then one will insert itself by force and with great bloodshed.

We need massive reform, we should be very careful about calling for revolution, but life without government in some form or other is next to impossible. It's like asking people not to be people any more.

If you look at history, a fair deal of truly massive reform comes only in response to the threat of revolution, as the incumbent elite seek to give up only enough ground to appease the masses and maintain control.

There's even economic models of this. I can't be bothered finding the citations though, apologies.

Threat of revolution to force systemic change, now that I can get behind.

Actual revolutions seem to involve many years of misery for everyone, and often end up in worse places than where they began.

People have to go. It's been a couple hundred thousand or a couple million years, depending on how you measure it, and the species has yet to prove itself. Destroy humanity!

We just need genetically modified humans, like we have genetically modified plants. Need to remove a few genes: like greed, jealousy, and probably a few others. But there is no ethical way to do this :(

We could remove those genes by killing all humans. You didn't say you needed to keep the rest.

So who's gonna run this anarchy thing?

RMS

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