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Today's episodes on the famous political work of Robert nosic titled anarchy state and utopia. I hope you love the show today

So obviously there are a lot of different problems political philosophers were faced with throughout the 20th century

And we talked about most of them so far, but one of the biggest ones we haven't talked about yet

specifically for political philosophers in the mid to late 20th century one of the biggest questions facing them was this

When we are hit with problems big problems that we need to solve collectively as a society

Should the state or the government be the primary tool that we use to solve those problems?

How much responsibility is wise to give to the government?

Does the government solve the problems of a society in the best manner possible or does giving the government more responsibilities to deal with create more problems than its worth?

Another important question to consider about all this when it comes to this episode in particular

When you progressively give the government more jobs to do and more outcomes to guarantee for people when you have a big

powerful government with a democracy behind it feeding it task to complete

Does a big government plus a democracy always equal a tyranny of the majority and to citizens that don't necessarily agree with the majority or the people currently holding political office

Do those citizens just need to resign themselves to paying into a tax pool that funds all the things they don't agree with?

Maybe an oversized government makes slaves of people whose views don't happen to align with the current majority

To me these are some of the most important and fun questions to think about in all of political philosophy

But let's take these questions on one at a time

Should the government be the tool that we use to solve our problems as a society now as you can imagine when you ask a question like this one

That's this wide and scope the answers you're going to get are going to vary widely as well

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