{"id":3395,"date":"2014-09-17T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2014-09-17T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:30:19","slug":"of-course-why-didnt-we-think-of-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"Of course! Why didn&#8217;t we think of that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second-weirdest argument for statism that I&#8217;ve heard is: &#8220;We are social animals!&#8221; &#8230; implying, I guess, that if not for the constant threat of force we would not behave according to our nature.<\/p>\n<p>The weirdest (which I&#8217;ve only heard twice) is: &#8220;There are always some people who will seek to dominate others, and there needs to be a structure to facilitate that ambition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-weirdest argument for statism that I&#8217;ve heard is: &#8220;We are social animals!&#8221; &#8230; implying, I guess, that if not for the constant threat of force we would not behave according to our nature. The weirdest (which I&#8217;ve only heard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}