Oppressive Governments

Title: Oppressive Governments
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 999 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Oppressive Governments

Stephanie's Aff "Man is by nature a violent creature. Without government, life would be nasty, brutish, and short. Justice can exist only when there is some systematic means of protecting individual rights, and insofar as the state of nature contains no mechanism of this kind it is by hypothesis lacking in justice." In agreement with Allen Rosen's analysis in Kant's Theory of Justice, I affirm the resolution that an oppressive government is more desirable than …showed first 75 words of 999 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 999 total…that neither of the conditions is just. In evaluation which condition contains more elements of justice, I have proven that an oppressive government is more likely to offer protection from internal and external violence, which is the individual's just due. I have also proven that governmental oppression is subject to limits that would not affect oppression from other societal institutions. Thus we can only conclude that an oppressive government is more desirable than no government.

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