Yea, I can buy that but you jumped to the idea that community institutions are
necessarily government. When I read the piece my communitarian sensibility was
thinking the family, little league, churches, the Boys and Girls Clubs, Cub
Scouts, and also government schools. You seem to see a larger role for
government in the developmental landscape than I do.
As an example of what I believe is wrong. Look at any place where there is
anomie. It is because the government supports and services have grown at the
expense of natural supports.
I don't think the government is modeling or nurturing much of anything these
days.
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
Community institutions should nurture responsibility and fairness.
This ethos is not an immutable genetic property, which can blithely be
taken for granted. It’s a precious social construct, which can be undermined
and degraded.
Exactly! Responsibility is not innate, it is something we learn socially by
example. We need Lean Government that models and nurtures responsibility. Not
a Big government that tries to be responsible for everything, nor a Small
government that is responsible for nothing. The former encourages
irresponsibility, the latter fails to discourage it
E
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