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government is an essential mechanism for creating and upholding those rights
you think government “creates” you rights? You worship the government in place of God
Religion is a powerful lever for governments.
Religion exists because of the human need for government.
You worship your god in place of reason.
Your belief in your god is not shared by most other people, making an absence of government a very dangerous situation for you.
You clearly have not thought this through.
Government provides law, order, protection and enforcible contracts.
Without them you are prey to anyone stronger than you.
Without them nobody can safely invest in anything.
What protection?? Governments attack their own citizens all the time. The US federal government takes turns exploiting the losing half of the electorate. European governments are masochistic. The Russian government is sadistic. The PRC government is dragging civilians into a war they can't win and interprets "law and order" as sending anyone who refuses to outright worship them to a gulag. Which government on earth provides anything of value that couldn't be provided more efficiently by a Bitcoin-backed corporation?
At least in the US there's a basic legal and societal consensus that the government is not God. You don't even have that. You literally worship the state.
People gain strength, power, security and wealth by forming groups.
The individual pays a price- subservience to the group, but in an ideal situation that subservience is rewarded with a bounty of wealth, infrastructure, security, education, healthcare and opportunity.
Governments and their success in serving citizens vary, according to many variables but without government people are weak, vulnerable, unable to maximise or even realise anything close to their potential.
A good government balances individual freedoms with requirements and obligations.
Taxes fund services and infrastructure, law and order and defense.
Good government requires enough citizens to engage and participate in keeping the system honest and effective- Libertarians seek to opt out, blaming government for everything when they themselves contribute nothing toward the requirement of government and its essential role.
Libertarians are over entitled spoilt brats. Send them all to Gaza for re-education.
Taxes fund services and infrastructure, law and order and defense.
Everyone can pay for their own gun. Everyone has to pay for their own gun.
Go live in Gaza.
天下大亂 is not the absence of government, it's a competition between aspiring governments, and settling on one doesn't solve the problem (especially when it's the absolute worst one you could have picked). The absence of government is any time and space where you are making your own decisions without a gun to your head. When you choose who to marry instead of being issued a bride by the state, that's an absence of government.
When you marry you apply to the government for permission, registration and license.
You are not free to marry your goat.
Do you want to be?
Most people will sell out their freedoms for a Big Mac and a Coke.
That is the reality of the world and human nature.
People inherently understand the need to be part of a group for security and wealth creation.
Libertarians are simply naive decadent ingrates.
Send them all to Gaza for re-education.
When you marry you apply to the government for permission, registration and license.
This is all a convoluted tax. None of it is necessary for a loving long-term relationship. It proves my point really.
You are not free to marry your goat. Do you want to be?
Yes I do. Because the goat clause is never that simple. It's 500 pages of gotcha legislation so that you can throw me in a gulag if you catch me overfeeding my goat. So scrap all the bullshit. I'm 1,000 more afraid of the lawmaker claiming there needs to be a law for this, than I am of the one guy who actually marries a goat. That guy isn't a threat to me. You are.
I would deport you and your goat to The Gaza Strip.
Then you can see how important the nation state and good governance is.
Your goat would be stolen and BBQed by sundown...probably by raiding Zionist war criminals.
Truth is you would not last long outside of the safety and security of the nation state.
What happened in Gaza? Don't they have Palestine's good governance to protect them and keep them safe?
USA sponsors Zionist genocide.
Good luck to you and your goat.
Government creates a structure of rules and enforcement.
This enables individuals to operate in a context of relative security from internal and external threats.
You can assert that government is an apex predator but this can only happen if the people are so weak and lazy that they allow it.
You wank on about self sovereignty but contribute nothing to the collective security that can only be achieved through government.
You are a lazy, selfish, irrational, naive and parasitic burden upon society.
Go live somewhere these is little or no government and live your dream- yeah right, you will never because you are whinging all talk no walk hypocrite.
'All you can do is hope and pray that the government will have mercy on you during your interactions with it. And apparently you willingly support it and grant it permission over your own life. You are a willing slave.'
Wrong. I have literally taken my government to court to challenge its assertions. I fight for my rights while acknowledging government is an essential mechanism for creating and upholding those rights while I have a reciprocal obligation and duty to ensure my government is as good as it can be within the context of human nature.
I do not opt out or disengage from reality as you do- I accept reality and engage to work toward the best outcome possible.