Quote Originally Posted by delusionsofNORMALity
we embrace politics instead of politesse because it is easier to blame someone else than to claim personal responsibility for the errors that are bound to happen and to forgive.

You have a point, but the whole point of a governing authority is to protect our freedom from eachother. For example, could you ever picture someone who is a psychopath thinking about other people? Some people will do whatever it takes to get what they want; lie, steal, kill, anything.
Some people just crave power, it is a character flaw but it is a part of human nature we all posses.

To believe we could live in some kind of a world ruled only by the power of love and forgiveness is a serious misjudgment of human nature. It depends on us all using our sense of reason to operate on our sympathetic passions. Our sense of reason is controlled by our passions, not the other way around. I don't know if that kind of world could work.
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