[ExI] reconnect

[Frederick Mann]

--On Monday, September 10, 2007 08:52:57 AM +0100 BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/10/07, Frederick Mann wrote:
>> Consider the possibility that the s...s, bad as
>> they might be, are angels compared to the g...s,
>> that the s...s have caused the deaths of maybe
>> a few dozen, while the g...s have caused the
>> deaths of hundreds of millions. ("g...s" =
>> governmentologists -- members of possibly the
>> deadliest and most destructive cult of all!)
>>
>
> I thought g....s was a reference to the god squads. Religions have
> killed millions throughout history, or have been used as the excuse
> for killing millions.
>
> Government deaths are just human selfishness writ large. 'If there is
> more of us than them, then we can take their stuff'. Just human
> nature.
>
> BillK

If you do some research, you may find that
during the past 100 years, governmentologists
have caused many more deaths than godologists.
I suspect that governmentologists have outscored
godologists by a factor of more than 10 to 1.

R.J. Rummel (frequently nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize) coined the term "democide" for
death by government:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/

His number for democide victims during the 20th
century is 262,000,000. However, he doesn't seem
to include people killed by governmentologists
during wars. If you add the latter, the total
probably comes to about 300,000,000:

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

(Of course, some governmentologists are also
godologists.)

Given that the s...s have caused the deaths
of maybe a few dozen, compared to about
300,000,000 by governmentologists, exposing
the evils of which cult is most pressing?

See also:

#TL15A: The Good and the Bad
http://buildfreedom.com/tl/tl15a.html

#TL07B: The Nature of Government
http://buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07b.shtml

Frederick Mann