Is all government crooked?

[Figleaf]

What do you think?

[Michael Bluth]

I think somebody's upset about the results of the RCMP investigation.

[Canuck E Stan]

What do you think?

I think, you don't.

[August1991]

Mu?

[scribblet]

Yes, what is Mu ?

Not all gov'ts or politicians are crooked, not even all the Liberals - often people mistake difference in ideology and disagrement with positions as being crooked.

[stignasty]

Mu?

Is it a pancake house?

[PolyNewbie]

Not only is the elected government corrupt but most of the professional self governing bodies are corrupt to various levels (especially law and to a certain extent engineering (9/11) & accounting (income taxes / money creation) )

[Charles Anthony]

Not only is the elected government corrupt but most of the professional self governing bodies are corrupt to various levels (especially law and to a certain extent engineering (9/11) & accounting (income taxes / money creation) )

Can you expand on that?

Mu is what you reply when you interpret the question as being unanswerable of sorts.

For example, to the question "Are all cork-screws straight?" I would likely answer Mu or ignore the question or present a litany of cockamamie conspiracy theories.

[Sulaco]

Not only is the elected government corrupt but most of the professional self governing bodies are corrupt to various levels (especially law and to a certain extent engineering (9/11) & accounting (income taxes / money creation) )

Can you expand on that?

Mu is what you reply when you interpret the question as being unanswerable of sorts.

For example, to the question "Are all cork-screws straight?" I would likely answer Mu or ignore the question or present a litany of cockamamie conspiracy theories.

It is an answer that means neither yes nor no. It states the question can only really eb answered by another question. It really tells you to unask the question.

[Topaz]

Isn't it a matter of which country you are talking about?? Probably all governments have corruption but there are some that ae more than others. ie. USA! Russia! China!

[cybercoma]

Mu means the question makes assumptions. The assumption is that government is crooked. If you answer "no" then that could imply that only some of government is crooked.

So, any...the answer is Mu.

And my opinion is no, not all government is crooked....just the governing party. Regardless of who is in power, they are crooked...then we have this game with the opposition doing all they can to expose the crookedness. This would appear to me to be the way our government has worked for decades.

The leading party does crooked things and the opposition spends all of its time trying to expose it. Very rarely is anything of value ever accomplished.

God, I hope I'm wrong.