Your teenager begs you to pay off his credit card, you do it only to see him run it up again and again. At some point you have to be a parent and say....NO.
That’s what a lot of people don’t get. We’re the parents. Bible passages about obeying rulers applies to the government, not us. We’ve got things all messed up because we’re not demanding submission. It’s like a family where the kids rule the home.