[thefbi]

Its almost tautological and by definition that your local government has legally granted power (might even say monopoly practically speaking) for violence and kidnapping over you. A distant foreign government has to expend great resources to do the same for you which your government would do with a stroke of the pen. Sometimes even without that thin veneer.

[dragonwriter]

> tautological and by definition

That's redundant and repetitive.

[sudosysgen]

If you want to be incredibly pedantic, something can be tautological without being part of the definition, and something can be part of the definition without being tautological (by way of contradiction).