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"the nature of fire is inherently destructive"
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Personally I consider the attributions of fire to be expansive, heat, dry, s ustanance etc. That's mostly from a philosophical angle, though. Water is sometimes considered destructive, but I think that has less to do with actual water and more to do with dialectics.
Don't forget, without fire the trees wouldn't even be alive in the first place. There'd be no life on earth.
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"In order to "delegate" it, you first must have aquired it from somewhere, right? "
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Yes, but there's still a difference between aquiring power and delegating power. The Government can still aquire power, even if it's purpose is to delegate it. The difference is that rather than accumulating power, it would be distributed in one form or another. Our system is actually sort of based on this idea. Like you said, there's more than once branch of Government, each with the supposed ability to put "Checks" on another or control some aspect of our country. Hence, delegation of power.
I personally believe the accumulation of power is the big problem. Not even the raw aquisition of it, just accumulation. Where one person, or one small group of people, can have more control over the government than anybody else, or any branch of government. That's pretty what's going on in our government now. If that power was properly distributed, there wouldn't be a problem like that.
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"A measure that allocates tax money for the purpose of building a bridge in Alaska involves money taken in taxes from all of us, so we have all effectively lost the power to do with that money whatever we might have done, right?"
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Right, but that's an example of delegation of power. Redistribution of power, or "money". Hence my example that money is power, which I felt is a very good example for our government and nearly any other government. Power is represented by money.
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"The legislature passes a law criminalizing rape, and we all lose the power to legally rape somebody."
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But does the legislative branch gain the power to rape somebody? Again, another example of delegation of power.
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"It was the job of "We The People" to protect the courts from the corrupting influence of being over-lawyered"
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In the end you can say that about any government, but it's not really that simple. A corrupt government can do many things to control people, and in this age of psychologists and sociologists the maintanance of certain social consciousnesses are much easier to control. Not that I'm implying there's some conspiracy to control people's brains, but everything has an effect, and I think the people in 'Power' realize that.
Hence my quote in your signature. Obviously if america was more educated on the grand scale, and educated properly(to be able to think right, for example) then we'd have less of a chance of running into this type of problem.
I'm basically saying that the aquisition and, more specifically, accumulation of power has caused one body of government to accumulate more power(economically, socially, politically etc.) than they should necessarily have, even by the inherent rules of our government. If one group of people has more power than they were meant to have, the entire functioning of the government ceases because that one piece becomes THE essential government. However, if that power were properly delegated than there would be no problems.
The Governments nature being ascribed by Delegation is not only exemplary of process but also of it's inherent bodily functions that maintains it's actual healthy existance. It's exactly like the human body, everything needs to be distributed to the right place otherwise the body dies, or becomes diseased. "Delegation" is intrinsically appropriate.
Like you said Government should restrict bad human nature and I agree with that. Government in and of itself doesn't really create any problems, unless you consider the position of being in 'Power' corruptive of human nature itself.
P.S. What did you think of those transitional fossils fossils?
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