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[Rick Blanc]

JohnB,

I wouldn't question either the nobility of some of your ideas nor your sincerity in talking about them, but they are not new.  You are not the first to have these kinds of thoughts and questions, and there are those who have already explored these ideas in great depth.

I cared about this kind of stuff enough to get an education in this discipline, studying political science in college and public administration in graduate school.  

May I recommend some reading material?  John Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke would be a start.  Aristotle, Plato and Aquinas are always good, and Augustine is great if you want to explore the susceptability of human institutions to corruption.

People smarter than either of us have struggled mightily before us with these questions which is one reason we are lucky enough not to live in a Hobbesian jungle today.

RB