Azathoth123 comments on Open thread, September 15-21, 2014

[Azathoth123]

The belief that government can be engineered to improve things is shared by everyone except those in despair of it ever happening.

A lot of libertarians would beg to disagree there.

[Richard_Kennaway]

I thought about that, but I decided that reducing the government and doing away with it counted as engineering the government. For the libertarian, the task is complete not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.