Monarchy has been chosen over other forms of government countless times during human history. People are lazy and most are simply terrified that they are unable to care for themselves and their families. So the trade of freedom for security becomes an easy choice. However, such attitudes result in self-loathing which is easily transformed into hatred for those who opt not to trust themselves to the benevolent despot.

Nobody opts to be governed by force. They opt for Free Shit, which is endlessly promised by politicians of all stripes. Most of them aren't capable of realizing how rule by force inevitably follows.

When people first bound into groups it was to provide a sense of stability and security in a tumultuous world. When grouped a society formed. A society needs rules to ensure conduct and respect within the group, this is not force. When someone joins a society that individual compromises, giving some of the authority for his well being to others and the individual shares the responsibility of the groups well being.

Force, as I see it, is when the government, an elite few or a mob, decide they know better for you and yours than you do and enact unlawful rules to govern conduct to ensure their supremacy.

My contention, all laws/rules, all governments, are not an act of force. The individual can still maintain his/her Rights in a legitimate society AND STILL compromise some of his/her independence to participate in the group (country).

Answer: Bribery, Fraud, and Breach of Promise by nearly everyone elected

No one wants to be governed by force. They want to govern their neighbor by force but somehow don't realize that the consequence is that their neighbor can govern them by force too.

Easy question, difficult answer. Governments by force dominate human history. First on my list would be to attempt a study of the psychological makeup of humans. How we perceive reality and process the data received. How can we be so docile as to accept rulers and yet spend so much of our time in the violence of war? Maybe we are a lot closer to our mammalian hunter cousins than we'd like to admit. I forget who said that civilization is but a thin veneer.

First post here. I had hoped to be able to write a description and post the link to my own latest/greatest:

http://noruler.net/13171/going-volunt...