I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually. That's why the State should never have the power to do anything that an individual could not justly do.
>I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually.
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