Thursday, October 19, 2006

Reflect on This

Via the Mises Blog, we are treated to a piece written by Jayant Bhandari titled Let Cultures Play Out Their Own Problems.

Though Bhandari is writing in regards to India’s culture, the words he has penned have implications for every society where interference by outside forces (think about Iraq) are attempting to accelerate changes in society.  From Bhandari’s piece.

An individual can cajole, persuade, or even beg, but he has no right to use force to stop others from killing themselves. Most importantly, institutions, particularly the state, should certainly stay out of all such affairs. The state’s involvement is inherently corrupting, invariably creating worse problems than it solves. It cannot change the problems’ roots. It can only sanitize the façade, brushing the real problems under the carpet. Problems will then simmer and, eventually, surface in new avatars.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/19 at 08:58 AM
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