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What is the difference between society and government? Give examples.

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Answer:

Society is just a group of people like a community. They are usually grouped because of their similarities in location, lifestyle, etc.

Government is power over the society, ideally for the good of the society.

Step-by-step explanation:

Society” is comprised of all people and groups, their institutions and customs and cultures, and the relationships among all of these. Put another way, society is the world you live in.

“Government” is an institution of society, whose only legitimate purpose is to protect its society from aggressors— domestic aggressors who interfere with the rights an liberties of individuals, and foreign aggressors who would seek to conquer. A government has no other legitimate purpose, and undertakes no other role.

Government doesn’t exist in the world. What we call “government” is actually the “State.” States are a complex of institutions and entities whose sole purposes are conquest and confiscation. Domestically, States “conquer” their indigenous peoples by making them believe that they are “governments,” working for the social good in a way that governments ought. States confiscate by means of taxes, licenses, lotteries, and other schemes that transfer wealth from an exploited segment of population to the State itself, and thence to a favored segment of population. Internationally, States conquer by force and violence, and confiscate the resources of the conquered lands, either for their own purposes, or to control the flow of those resources to rivals. While mankind has aspired to have government, every “government”— every form, and every one, throughout history, have actually been States. In the US, we are saddles with States at every level— local, regional, state, and federal, and every combination between.

So society is people living their lives, trying to be free and productive and happy. Government theoretically plays a limited and specific role in society, but the term “government” is actually a euphemism for “State,” whose sole purposes are the conquest of society, and confiscation of its wealth. You may well be skeptical of these descriptions— it is part of the State’s breeding and indoctrination that you reflexively respond to the truth with denial and hostility. But try to set that aside and look at that facts, and decide whether your society functions with a government, or a State