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by pbhjpbhj 5731 days ago
>If the government decides to enact a law mandating installation of CCTV cameras in your living room, you can't refuse.

Unless you live in a democracy.

>Because the government is unlike any other organization. It has a monopoly on the use of force.

In a democracy of course the government is the combined (in some way) will of the people. It bemuses me when people rail against "the government" and forget that means "the people's expressed (in some way) demands" in a democracy; I'm not saying that you're forgetting that part about democracy BTW.