toldailytopic: What do you think are the three most important roles of government?

[Town Heretic]

I wrote: help who?

A conversation worth engaging in. :idunno:

Wow. That's the worse username ever. I don't want to help her...or him. :nono:

I had justice at the top of my list. Establishing a justice system is a role of government. An important one in my book. Defence is another. Infrastructure is another. What I'm wondering is why these sorts of roles are at the top of everyone's lists when elections revolve around things like jobs, education and medicine.

I suspect because we tend to be more thoughtful in the larger sense and more irked in the particular applications.

But it seems people want to avoid talking about that by calling medicine "justice".

I think healthcare is a moral issue and that our system has been a moral failure, historically.