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Originally Posted by Hassun  What you're saying is basically 'survival of the fittest'.
I didn't know you were a Darwin fan Arrianna.  |
Hey, Darwin had some good concepts working for him. It isn't his fault they were co-opted for political purposes. As far as I am concerned if a government is to weak to defend the rights of it's citizens it deserves to fall.
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Originally Posted by Luminous Relating back to imperialism, I think there are issues going both ways, but I think anti-imperialism is more preferable. You're probably going to have conflicts either way, but the wars I think are on a far smaller scale when the stronger governments aren't intervening.(Captain Obvious has arrived!) |
Yet the strongest Imperial governments all had one thing in common, an interest in the welfare of it citizens with anyone willing to play by the rules able to be an equal citizen. Alexander the Great, The Roman Empire, etc. The last Imperial government we had in our history didn't do that (*cough* England) and they were toppled from inside not outside.