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YES, NO DOUBT NO, DOUBT
Debate Score:22
Arguments:14
Total Votes:25
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Is society a reflection of it's government?

Gov

YES, NO DOUBT

Side Score: 7
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NO, DOUBT

Side Score: 15

Government provokes many vices through the idiom, "MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO."

The state is the agitator. It promotes the idea that aggressively stealing property through taxation and expropriation is right.

The state always initiates aggression by the compulsory monopoly on its use of force either domestic or foreign.

The state is the sole reason for crony capitalism or corporatism through their coercive powers to benefit some businesses and individuals at the expense of others.

The state creates public and natural monopolies while condemning the nonexistent of private monopolies.

The state attempts to restrict all personal freedoms via drug laws, compulsory education, fashion police and garbage.

Side: YES, No doubt
2 points

Think about all of those people who look at a separate culture and think "I should take away their shit and teach them the proper way to live."

When government decides that the people are better off being told what to do, it has failed to view us as individuals. It sees us as a part of a collective. One that may or may not be allowed to do drugs, engage in bizarre sexual acts, and trade freely.

Side: YES, No doubt
2 points

I think government is a reflection of the elite within any society...their rules, their society, their government, their money. The closer I get to the elite, the more I like government...except of course the taxes....!

Side: NO, DOUBT
1 point

Actually, I really think the opposite. The government is the reflection of the society

Side: NO, DOUBT

I agree. While it is not a perfect reflection of the society it governs, it is a reflection of the choices that population chooses for its representation.

(In a democratic republic that is.)

Side: NO, DOUBT
mcmurr(15) Disputed
1 point

With all due respect, I think you all are really misled in your thinking. Rarely do our choices matter...seriously. This is not to be sarcastic, believe me, but how much do you really know about politics? Even our so-called foreign enemies know that the US government is not a reflection of its people.

Side: NO, DOUBT
1 point

When has a politician or government entity ever truly represent its people? I am old and have yet to see it. It is just a bunch of wealthy people running the poor into the ground for their own benefit, and we pay them to do it too...lol!

Side: NO, DOUBT
Darkb456(94) Disputed
1 point

That is merely because once they get into office, they become privy to information that makes their campaign promises unreachable, or at least disasterous. It's easy to say you're going to end world hunger until you actually start trying, and then you realize that the problem is far more complicated than you initially believed.

Side: YES, No doubt
1 point

i take the view that this question is too controversial to define the answer without serious research. More obvious fact for me is that government is the reflection of society, because the authority is a group of people who are the part of our population and we all have the same mentality that shows people who we are.

Side: NO, DOUBT
1 point

yes, I think it does. The government was made for the people by the people therefore it at least reflections the general populations ideals. But it certainly doesn't represent all of society.

Side: NO, DOUBT
1 point

I think yes. Because government is made of people who live in the same society. Nowhere, the worker of government is foreigner, therefore the understandings of government are usually the same. If the society is hard-working, productive and goal seeking, the government also tries to implements and produces something new and develop the country.

Side: NO, DOUBT
1 point

I think yes. Because government is made of people who live in the same society. Nowhere, the worker of government is foreigner, therefore the understandings of government are usually the same. If the society is hard-working, productive and goal seeking, the government also tries to implements and produces something new and develop the country.

Side: NO, DOUBT