Um yeah son, in this case it kinda does.
No, pipsqueak, it kinda doesn't. You're presuming that government is the only reason we have any sane norms in society - that without government we'd all just wallow in our own feces and expire from starvation. Speak for yourself.
No, I'm not. I'm saying the government is what sticks all of that together and makes sure things that need done get done, although not necessarily in a timely or efficient manner. Things might actually be better if all that was handled by non government agencies but the fact is that they aren't, and haven't been.
You are welcome to dream about how you wish it was, but that doesn't change the way it is.
That's the dream, the lurid fantasy of statists everywhere. But it's BS. By and large, people do what they do because it's what they want to do - not because laws tell them too. They government is just skimming.
You are mostly correct, but also miss a point or two.
We have clean water laws because most of us did not want to see raw sewage in our rivers or industrial waste in our drinking water. But it was happening because of few people/companies were doing such things to make extra money. So we complained and our representatives made it illegal.
Most of us do not wish to rape or murder another person, thus the laws against such things are not really there for us, but to deal with those that do wish to do such things.
The problem is of course when people get power and want more, then we end up with seatbelt laws, helmet laws,smoking bans and 1000 other stupid laws meant to keep us safe from ourselves...which was never the purpose of government.
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