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b'"If men were angels, no government would be necessary" --James Madison\\n\\n\\nHuman beings respond to incentives. It doesn\'t matter how many good people there are, if there is an opportunity for taking advantage of people, the good people will generally shun such an opportunity and the bad people will trample each other trying to get it.\\n \\nGovernment is a way to take advantage of others. Some individuals get to spend other people\'s money to impose their ideas on everyone with force. This will attract the worst elements of society, who will crowd out and make these positions unavailable to the good folks. They will make the process so disgusting . . . that good people will not be able to endure the odious path required to reach the seats of power." -- Tom de Lorenzo New World Rising\\n\\nIn this episode we explore another of Kevin\'s very reasonable idea with an eye-catching cover (how many of these does he have?): Everyone is Evil. \\n\\n \\n\\nMaterial from Podcast\\n Clips sampled \\n\\nThe Box trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7rX7owL-M\\n\\n\\nFunny or Die, The Button (Box Parody): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvDS-MlIBU&feature=related \\n\\n Music \\nComing soon (need to find it again :p )\\n\\n\\n\\nTranscript of Podcast\\n\\nJad: Hello, and welcome to another episode of this yet unnamed enterprise. We do have a named website now - JKPod.com - where you can find all the episodes we\'ve released thus far, as well as show notes and references. We\'re still in our initial and developmental phase of the show. While we find our bearings, we\'ll probably bounce around freely and haphazardly among our mutual interests with a reasonably consistent focus on the grand ideas of liberty, human unity, and equality. \\n\\nEvery time we sit down to record, I\'m struck by the many topics we have to leave behind. I assume as time goes to infinity, we\'ll get around to covering everything. In the meantime, it hurts to watch the really juicy but only tangentially related topics zip by. For example, a couple weeks ago, Kevin mentioned that: \\n\\nKevin: "I think all people are inherently evil myself - I\'ve made the point many times." \\n\\nI knew immediately that it was a conversation that we needed to have. \\n\\nJad: "Well that\'s a conversation we need to have at some point for sure." \\n\\nKevin: "Absolutely, I\'d love to. Yeah, I\'ve got a whole super-theory on that one." \\n\\nJad: In today\'s episode, we examine that super theory - which struck me as an odd position to hold for a libertarian. Usually, the people are evil [?] has trotted out by proponents of the state managed society. The idea being that without the careful surveillance and consistent armed intervention of the government, the citizenry would descend into a Hobbesian war of all against all. So we sat down to explore Kevin\'s "Everyone is Evil" theory.\\n\\nKevin: Everyone is evil. Well, it\'s not a particularly complicated philosophy, and I think at the heart of it you would probably agree with the tenants[?] of it. But it\'s also something that I think very few people probably can get on board with. Very few people can probably agree with it. It\'s not an indictment on any one person, it\'s just that given the opportunity to do something, I believe that we\'re just programmed to - evil is a very subjective word - but to do whatever is the less moral route is generally speaking the way that human beings are going to go - again, presented with the case. \\n\\nJad: What\'s the end of the evil spectrum for you? Do you think someone would you know, only not do because they\'re under some sort of social scrutiny? \\n\\nKevin: Let\'s just use things like evil is greedy, or selfish, or arrogance, or egotistical, or in any normal societal construct, if somebody were excessively greedy we would probably see that as a negative thing. Mitt Romney right now for example - with this whole tax situation - people look at him and they say, "He\'s greedy". It\'s a negative indictment against who he is.'