[jamiek88]

This tired crap needs to end. It’s thought and conversation terminating and just fucking lazy.

It’s not original, impressive, ‘seeing through the sheeple’.

You will have a government. When government collapses you get Syria.

Let’s debate about what type we want not ‘all government is bad hurr durr’. We’re not teenagers getting high for the first time.

To be living in peace and relative prosperity when a lot of the world has a lot of failed governments thus war and societies collapsing sitting in your ivory tower with a full belly, leaning back and proclaiming ‘you know, governments are no different to protection rackets’ is just a completely juvenile attitude and practice.

[mdex]

My argument was in response to the idea that government is a business, I said that rather than a business, government is more similar to a protection racket. Not that governments are exactly the same as protection rackets, which seems to be the words you're accusing me of writing.

You are afraid that if we think of governments in a skeptical or cynical way, we must then be advocating for anarchy. That's an emotional argument and it has no place in an intellectual conversation.