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Nairobi; Kenya: Governments are established to keep societies secure. In fact the key function of the state is security, public safety and protection of life. But governments can at times do this with a bias by giving priority to the safety of the privileged social classes at the expense of the poor. The poor then begin to wonder why they should, in the first place, obey government. But do they have a choice?
When I was an undergraduate I got very excited about theories that tried to explain how we came to exist in this world and who, as human beings, we were. What was our purpose in this life? Why do we subject ourselves to authority?
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