Thursday, January 22, 2009

Almost Right

Via Instapundit comes this interesting quote from Samizdata:

In the mind of the anti-free-marketeer, the government occupies the same kind of intellectual territory as the divine designer in the mind of an anti-Darwinian.

That's almost right. It would be perfect if God attributed with all these wondrous abilities were actually out there stopping evolution.

4 comments:

  1. Government as Mommy or Daddy is bad enough, but government as God is a sobering thought.

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  2. But it's true of statists at all levels, not just in terms of markets.

    There are a substantial number of people who hate CEOs because you can't trust them with all that power--so you have to give all that power to a government employee.

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  3. Something that's always puzzled me though, is why do those same people, who want to give the government so much power, hate cops? (which I perceive as different from hating the military)

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  4. I know! It's hilarious!

    They also hate The Man.

    Well, who else is The Man but the freakin' gov't?

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