[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Nonsense! You can fight an individual who treads on your liberty. You can't fight government.

Oh really, and how are you going to do that? If your neighbour is doing something like trashing up your yard, etc. and refuses to stop despite being asked to, what are you going to do, shoot him? Or start a feud by returning it in kind to him? THAT'S the nonsense.

That's what the commonwealth is for - to arbitrate between individual citizens, instead of forcing them to return back to the "might makes right" state of nature.

[mugs99]

If he's trashing my yard he's going to stop commonwealth or no commonwealth and I don't need to shoot him...there are many ways to deal with a jerk.

Individuals can not dictate to me how I spend my money or live my life. Government does that on a daily basis.
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