if there were no politicians to write the laws or cops to enforce the laws, would you commit violent acts of aggression on your fellow man? If you ans4wered "yes," then your problems run deeper than politics.
That's the problem. There are people who would answer yes. More than you'd like to think.
Its entire existence is based off of the premise that YOU require someone telling you how to do right and wrong.
Not true. Governments existence is based on the premise that there is a need for organization among groups of people, a need for common defense (from all the people who chose "yes" to that previous question) and a need for mediation of disputes.
but that doesn't require the presence of a govt. Common defense can be provided by security companies for local security, and national security agencies can bind together for defense from threats outside the country. There are private mediation services already in widespread use for resolving disputes. The courts are largely enforcers of govt-generated laws, some entirely immoral and unjust. Protection from bad products can come in the form of watchdog agencies like Consumer Reports and Underwriters Laboratories who test products and establish guidelines for safe products. Most of these services have been pushed to the sidelines by an intrusive govt, but before the 1950s, these services were in widespread use and our govt was much, much, smaller.
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