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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Do you feel safe with the basic structure of your country's government? I can only speak from my experience as a citizen of the U.S., that political party differences make things difficult, but I don't think those problems are insurmountable. Whether I love the current political party in power or not, I feel ok in the grand scheme of things. Would you feel better if there was no organized government? I don't really see how modern life could survive and progress without some sort of group leaders, but what do you think? The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I'm quite happy with the way our government here is structured Gordon, but then I do live in a country with a Social Democracy setup. Cheers. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Any relationship from an individual all the way up to the top, I've always believed requires 3 things. Trust, Respect & Honesty. With just one of those breached, the relationship is in trouble. With any 2 or more, it's dead! |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
How can you trust a government that won't allow everyone to vote? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
So Clyde, 51 governments that can't be trusted. Note that is 51 governments that don't allow everyone to vote. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
So Clyde, 51 governments that can't be trusted. Note that is 51 governments that don't allow everyone to vote. Advocating anarchy! Got it! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19012 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
So Clyde, 51 governments that can't be trusted. Note that is 51 governments that don't allow everyone to vote. Why do you say that, can you trust all of the elected officials in your city or county? Or in the next county, what if the have radically different views as can happen at the borders of rural and urban areas. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
So Clyde, 51 governments that can't be trusted. Note that is 51 governments that don't allow everyone to vote. Precisely. The anarchy he advocates may be very good for one person and very bad for another. Balance it out and you have government. If you have 51 governments, same problem, good for some, very bad for others, balance it and you have federal government, let people vote and you have a republic. Have a free press reporting news and corruption has no place to hide. Have FAUX news and corruption flourishes. Or is the problem that he doesn't understand the opposite of government is anarchy? Would he trust anarchy? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Trust...hmm...is it instantly applied or is it earned? The pitfalls of trust broken/betrayed Hmm... the CEO of the GMC... Charlie Massey – Chief ExecutiveCan't see any medical degree amongst all that gumpf. |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
There is an important point in this bit: "Dr Bawa-Garba said in her defence she had worked a 12-hour shift with no break and there was a lot of miscommunication in the ward." Such a scenario is all too common. As a research scientist in the hospital lab i get to go home at 5.30pm (much to my colleagues on the ward's envy!). After twelve hours of staring into microscopes i would be absolutely knackered, yet the most damage i could do would be to myself. Were I a medical doctor, with other people's lives (sometimes literally) in my hands, the risks are much higher! Charlie Massey is a manager, not a doctor, you don't need a medical degree to do what he does. A functioning pair of ears to listen to concerns then (in an ideal world) act on those concerns is what's necessary. Trust...hmm...is it instantly applied or is it earned? Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
There is an important point in this bit:Very true. What is also important is what I've underlined. The problem is that too many managers let their positions (read status) overcome their common sense. |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
There is an important point in this bit:Very true. What is also important is what I've underlined. No arguments from me there. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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