如何看待「政府越大，公民越小」这一观点？
我们应如何看待「The bigger the government，the smaller the citizen」这一观点？理由为何？
i thought when we talk big or small on government, we are not referring to its scale or its employees, we are talking about the power vs. rights. As mentioned in other answers, the example on Syria supported a pretty convincing conclusion that whenever the government is no longer functioning, the people will suffer from the lack of public production, like security, education, environmental protection, etc. However, on the other hand, when you take like North Korea as a comparison, you will feel pwned even just seeing from a pc screen, whenever your facial muscle, your willingness to clap, your casual trip to Malaysia, are overseen carefully by the authority. These extreme examples showed us it is crucial for a citizen in a modernized country to think how we balance the individual』s right to the government』s power. There are so many issues and argues are fundamentally based on this conception, like the recent gun control act in New Zealand.
It』s a good question. It』s a classic question in Law and Politics Science. It』s not sensitive and I』m just practicing my awkward written English. Keep up! Our Nation relies on people who take politics as a serious science.
在一个特定历史时刻下，人的自由是有限的。而政府的强权必然导致公民的不自由。但公民太过自由也会威胁一部分人的平等，比如加拿大是不禁大麻的。所以说政府权力过大不好，就好像朝鲜公民没有一点自由，政府没有权力也不好，政府就无法组织力量维持基本的社会秩序。寻求一个适合的平衡点才是解决这个问题的关键。
建议持这种观点的人，去至今仍无统一政府、各路势力争战不休的利比亚，去体验下小政府下的大公民是怎么过日子的
谢邀！一般来说，政府不过是公民联合聘请的大管家而已，公民是主人。但如果政府很强势，很骄傲，那么公民就可能不幸了。
历史上欺压老百姓的事情可不少。
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