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It's a racket, basically a giant organized crime syndicate but with good PR.

Law doesn't have to be tied to a state.

People shouldn't follow the state.

Things are enforced by threat of violence.

The moment there's someone "authorized" to point a gun, all the other bad things we have seen inevitably roll out

Sort of. There's a big difference between being authorized to point a gun at an aggressor in defense of yourself and being authorized to point a gun at peaceful people to force them into obedience.