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The Problem of Political Authority

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Are You Afraid to Use the Government?

The reason why you have to use the government is that they have prohibited any one else from operating like a government. So in essence, they are forcing you to pay for the service. And then you can either use the service or not. In terms ofou using the restaurant voluntarily, then you could have to pay, only if they shut down all the other restaurants and gave you no other options. The second hing is, i only a very tiny portion of what the state does could be justified by consequentialist grounds. It seems odd for us to force you to do this stuff, but if we didn't have governments, things would be really awful. Or if we allowed for competing governments

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