For this purpose governments are instituted among men...

Governments are needed only to establish and enforce practices that enable humans to live and trade with one another. Any purpose established for government beyond that always appears to embody a cause, program, advantage, or moral belief that one group of people seek to impose on all. ALL VIOLENT CONFLICT in the world today within and between nations derives from these additional, but inappropriate and usually immoral, extra functions that have been tacked on to government's responsibilities (and powers).

One person, living on an island, does not need a government. Two people, however, immediately need to establish rules of some sort in order to live in the same proximity. As you add more people, the issues that need to be covered by the rules increases; the advance of civilization will also increase the number of issues and the complexity of the rules.

Morality and the rules of government (laws) have nothing to do with one another. For example, it is not necessary to introduce morality in order to have laws against murder or theft; if human beings are to gain an advantage by living together, they clearly are going to have to agree not to kill or steal. OR, to look at this from another perspective, of the Ten Comandments, only two are actually incorporated in the laws of the United States.

There are many people who share my perspective. Some of them alteady have blogs. I have created this one to add my voice to theirs, with the hope that at least a few readers will see politics and economics in a perspective that is, for them, new.