"Alex Chaihorsky" > writes:

> I see the government as evil neccesity

That seems a thoroughly ridiculous and contradictory thing to say. If
you're using the word `necessity' in anything resembling the `common
sense' way, then governments are a necessity precisely because their
existence generate beneficial outcomes. That's beneficial, as in bene,
as in *good*.

To say it in more detail, necessity only has sense with respect to
something, namely the thing which creates the necessity. For example,
boiling water is a necessity for making hot tea (perhaps not *boiling*
it).

When people use the word necessity but omit what it is with respect
to, it is because that thing is taken to be a universal good that
doesn't need to be said explicitly. If you're going to disagree with
this use of necessity, you're going to have to explain how it can make
sense without respect to a `thing', or you're going to have to explain
how that unsaid thing can be other than a universal good.

Perhaps you do agree with this use of necessity, but have some bizarre
notion about apparently perceived `intrinsic' evil somehow trumping
good consequences.

Cheers,

- Joel