re: #160 Salamantis

Umm, doesn’t the military protect our lives from those who threaten them? And you were in favor of that, right? But a plague or a flood or a lava flow or a building collapsing in an earthquake kill you just as dead as an enemy’s bomb or bullet.

The issue where government is concerned isn’t to protect you from nature, it’s to protect you from other people. Government exists to protect your freedom, by means of using retaliatory force against aggressors.