Similarly, Conlon covers the healthcare system as being purely voluntary, based upon the needs of the community, and without profit motivations, suppressing the chance of the corruption of today's privatized American system and not forcing an institution that the people do not wish for upon them. Though they differ in technical manners, all of these forms of anarchical structure embrace direct democracy as the chief overseer within an egalitarian framework, effectively disabling the lust for power from corrupting and stopping the most vicious from rising to the top. ... Power oppresses a...

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In a way it is as if Rousseau advocates for the stripping of all individuality and drive for self-betterment that doesn't immediately effect the group to force society to act on the good he says is inherently there. Rousseau's utopian society is one that revolves around a mindset of group benefit fostered by using force and the "general will" to take from individuals any sense of choice or individual worth. In the same light, Rawls would find Rousseau's views on the ownership of private property to be unfair as Rousseau believed that private ownership of property te...

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