Something to ponder . . . . . .

When (if) we vote for someone in 'government', we are voting to give away our (own) power, over ourselves.

Voting is far worse than doing nothing, according to author, Larken Rose.

The job of all “law enforcers” is, to ‘forcibly’ (what an enforcer does), inflict the will of the 'ruling class', upon the general public

Whether it is a soldier or some low-level bureaucrat, the job of all “law enforcers” is, to ‘forcibly’ inflict the will of the ruling class upon the general public.

Nonetheless, most imagine that as they do so, they are “serving the people.”

Of course, the idea of “serving” someone by initiating 'violence' against him is ridiculous.

(Consider the oxymoron of the absurdly-named “Internal Revenue 'Service' ”, which does nothing but rob hundreds of millions of people, of trillions of dollars every year.)

Rather than ever considering the possibility that what they do on a regular basis – participating in a system of aggression and coercion – is immoral and uncivilized,

Most state mercenaries, from the paper-pusher to the hired killer, simply say that they are “just doing their jobs,”

And imagine that that absolves them of all ‘personal responsibility’ for their actions and the results of those actions.

This, above all else, has been the downfall of human society.

Most of the evil and injustice committed by human beings is not the result of greed, or malice, or hatred.

It is the result of people doing what they were told, people following orders, people “doing their jobs.”

In short, most of man’s inhumanity to man is a direct result of the ‘belief’ in “authority.”

The damage done by the merely obedient is just as real, and just as destructive, as if they had each done it from personal malice.

Whether an old lady is robbed by an armed street thug or by a well-dressed, well-educated “tax collector” makes no difference, morally or in practical terms.

Whether a family in Iraq is killed by soldiers of Saddam Hussein or by soldiers of the United States “government” makes no difference, morally or in practical terms.

Whether some one’s personal choices are coercively controlled by a neighborhood thug or by the “police” makes no difference, morally or in practical terms.

The only difference is that the authoritarian thug, as a result of his delusional belief in the mythical entity called “government,” refuses to accept ‘personal responsibility’ for his own
actions.

His belief, in this most dangerous superstition, renders him unable to recognize evil as evil.

In fact, he will feel 'proud' of his loyal obedience to his masters, as he spends day after day inflicting hardship and suffering upon innocent people, because

He has been taught, for all of his life, that when evil becomes “law,” it ceases to be evil and becomes good. In truth, if anything is a sin, it is ‘blind obedience’ to “authority”!

Acting as an enforcer for “government” amounts to ‘spiritual suicide’ – actually worse than physical suicide, because

Every authoritarian “enforcer” not only shuts off the free will and ability to judge, which make him human, (thus “killing” his own humanity), but

Also leaves his body intact, to be used by tyrants as a tool for oppression.

To be a “law enforcer” is to willingly change one’s self from a person into a robot – a robot which is then given to some of the most evil people in the world, to be used to dominate and subjugate the human race.

Wearing the uniform of a soldier or the badge of a “law enforcer” is not a reason for ‘pride’.

It should be cause for great shame at having forsaken one’s own humanity (in other words, one's personal responsibility), in favor of becoming a pawn of oppressors. . . . . . . .

Larken Rose

(from his 2011 book, "The Most Dangerous Superstition")

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