re: #200 Lazarus

You haven’t identified what government should defend its citizens from and the principle that makes it true. Should it protect us from cigarette smoke or trans-fatty food or excessively large toilet bowls or “hate speech”? Should it protect certain groups from insults to their religion? Do you recognize a unifying principle that can be applied to distinguish legitimate formas of protection from illegitimate ones or do you just wing it on feelings and folksy bromides?

Are you really trying to draw an equivalence between defense of citizens against national disasters, and issues of personal freedom? Really?