The Button

By @culain8/14/2016philosophy

Suppose there is a button, and if you press it the Government will be gone. Would you press the button?
It's such an obvious answer and it's such a simple thing to do. So why wouldn't you want to press it?
We would have prosperity, right?

So how does pressing a button end the Government? Does it suddenly murder every Statist, or launch them to the Mars? Just how did one get in such a situation to even make this possible. Is there any guarantee that it will work? Will it last and how will I be held responsible?

The more one thinks about the details in the question, the more improbable it becomes to create a realistic scenario.

To me the question resembles voting, it's such a simple thing to do for promises of a utopia. The details of how it will work are never clearly explained and you will do it anonymously.
A fantasy for change.

Perhaps you could call me paranoid but I don't know if I would press the button.
I think creating a stateless society would require a bit more effort for a real change to occur.

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