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WhyCzar said:
People have a responsibility to balance freedom with safety as autonomous individuals.

The system has the responsibility to be accountable to the people.
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By making sure the rules that we have to govern systems - which involves collectives of people, are fair. Governments: boards, committees, councils are also forms of government. There has to be organized structures that the people elect and hold accountable with some fair due processes for all the people, to work out disagreement. Theoretically we have that in all levels of government, but not the accountability piece. Better here than in the US but still lacking. We shouldn’t throw democracy out with the bath water. Right wing and left wing libertarians who tend to be extreme and averse to compromise, competing in one place. Community and all its subgroups who hold personal freedom above all else, actually create the conditions for authoritarianism to manage the chaos, I’ve learned. Then they decide who gets a voice and who doesn’t and the conflicting continues on a microcosmic level to a global level. No, I think we’re better trying to aim for fairness and transparency of the government systems we already have - the “bones” are there, the potential is still there, with more people getting civilly involved at their community level, for change - instead of reinventing the wheel only to lead to the same place eventually anyway. Either way, old structure repaired or whole new one, it’s dependent on the people participating.
 
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