The Hammonds pardon strikes me as overall a more ominous sign than the Kavanaugh appointment.
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Certainly the government has tremendous power. It funded nuclear and space and computing tech. It just can’t dictate socially “desirable” results except in the narrow sense of moving $ from guns to cancer research.
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Ah, and my point is precisely that philosophers and governments have historically proven to go Evil far more easily by overestimating their ability to govern Prometheus for “good”
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Another way to look at it is to focus on outcomes. Undesirable outcome can be caused by either stupidity or evil intentions. Governance (not government) in my view is a system that reduces the probability of bad outcomes regardless the cause . It's about checks and balances.
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