In the animal kingdom, it is the law of the jungle, in which essentially the strong devour the weak. In that type of scenario, right or wrong, doesn’t really have any play, for might pretty much makes what is taken as right. Of course, that is the animal kingdom, which is relevant for that domain, and not so relevant to the world of human beings. When it comes to human beings, we are born with an innate sense of what is right and what is wrong, so that when things are occurring that aren’t just, or that aren’t right, we know them as essentially being unjust and wrong. So too, humankind ideally prefers to live within a construct in which we are judged by the content of our character and the acts that we so perform, which trumps in justice all those that lack the character to do the right thing as well as those that have performed bad acts, without suffering the just consequence for such.
The very form of government that makes the most sense for a given society, is that form of government that supports the unalienable rights that each of us is fairly entitled to. This thus signifies that the point of government is to protect as well as to secure the very rights that each person is equally entitled to. That is to say, government is constituted in order to benefit those that make up that governing society, by joining together into one body politic for that expressed purpose, and to the degree that government with its incumbent powers properly conducts its business of behalf of the people, it has done so for the greater good.
Again, the point of any well-founded government, is for the defense of the people, as well as for the correct application of the rule of law, so as to assure the domestic tranquility and the fair opportunity for the people. What no government should be, though, is the oppressor of the people and therefore the impediment to the people’s unalienable rights; but regrettably, many governments in ways big and small, are exactly that. So then, rather than the people, receiving the good benefits of a government that has been constructed for their behalf and for their general welfare, we often find that many governments are corrupt in such a manner, that the very few received the lion’s share of the benefits at the expense of the many, which clearly is a bastardization of what good governance should so represent and be.
In fact, most people, don’t seem to really understand that government, is supposed to really be of, for, and by the people; and instead, they view the government as an entity to avoid, or as simply intractable, unless they are one of the few, receiving some real benefits from that government. In today’s modern society, government in many ways, seems to have lost its most basic and important mission, which is really the defense of the people’s unalienable rights, above all. That is to say, government is meant to be the people’s good servant, and not its unsatiated master.