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The State Is Not Great: How Government Poisons Everything

By Jacob Spinney

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. The thing that differentiates the government from any other group of people is that the government is a territorial monopoly claiming the right to use coercion. It’s time we stop fooling ourselves into believing that the government is the entity which allows us to achieve collective goals and start recognizing it for what it really is, the entity that enables one group of people to violently aggress against another; that allows one individual to benefit at the expense of another.