• Urist@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    I thought it was Morgoth, a valar and not an elf, who made them. In any case it twists the causal relationship because the goblins subsequently make their own pitiful conditions. I do not condone the terminology even if solely on the basis of how reductionist it is. Since a government is, in its pure form, only a body of people, you can translate trust between people and trust between a government if it is sufficiently representative.

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      7 days ago

      Since a government is, in its pure form, only a body of people,

      That implies that logical structure of that body is negligible, if used to transfer human traits to a government.