Reply #17: "assist me in the enforcement of contracts" [View All]

[dchill]

Now, if one needs government for something like this, one should be aware that others who share in the privileges of citizenship have their own needs from government. And who gets to decide what shared resources actually are? Roads and rivers would be possibilities among a huge collection of others. What about oil and natural gas, what about electricity? And what about water? Is there no resource that some free-trader would not deem a commodity to be profited from, often obscenely? If we decide to have a war, should we not first show how we would be able to pay for it?

The "nanny state" is a derogatory and misleading term for "I am my brother's keeper." Suffice it to say that these "libertarian" types are always ready to respond, "I'm not your brother." They expect things to be done for them, but not for someone else with different expectations. "Government exists to protect freedom," indeed, including protection from those who feel that government should be focusing on enforcement of contracts. To a lot of thinking people, that is a scary idea - whatever limited government there is, it should be just for the advocate of that limited government.