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Originally Posted by Sunny Day
Remember this next time you need the police or have a fire or want clean food. Or use the Internet created by the United States Government.
You don't need no stinking government. Read Lord of the Flies.
Next time you post, just post "I am the stupidest motherfucker on the planet."
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Yeah, because "the government" exists. /s.
The government is just an arbitrary label placed upon a specific set of individuals. Same thing with nationalism, and also the same thing with the police force, fire fighters, and any other public service industry that people believe can only be handled through the state.
So it's easy to respond to your very common, very weak statist consequentialist argument. In the absence of "government", or rather a certain group of individuals we give special privileges to, people would continue to exist and solve social problems. It's people who build roads, it's people who fight fires, people who provide security. In a voluntary society, they would continue to exist only in a much better and efficient system; because it's based on a free market which lives and dies by competition. Competition that the state doesn't worry about, as it has a constant flow of money derived through annual theft.
In the end it comes down to whether or not you believe aggression is the best path to solve social problems. If you believe so, then our current system is a perfect fit.