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'Leave me alone" crapitalism.

I get sick of people saying 'government doesn't have the right to tell me what to do'. I say 'government' is representative of our collective needs. It is us. It helps maintain the common compact. Without a common compact, then I can sell heroin, young girls, toxic products, raise pigs in my yard and dump their shit in the street. I can steal your car, your wife, your child or burn your house down and what are YOU gonna do about it? Shoot me? I have more guns. Let's see these 'leave us alone' idiots get along without public energy, sewage, clean water, clean air standards, educated workers, pothole repair, bridge and other infrastructure maintenance etc. When someone says 'those lazy asses don't deserve X" in reference to poor, unemployed or elderly, ask how they would react when those people in need revert to theft, cooking meth, or other ways to 'survive'. Who ya gonna call then? the local militia? But then...the local