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The point of government is to have a monopoly on various kinds of power and control.

It’s the core concept of the thing, with the first premise being a monopoly on violence.

It’s not hypocritical for a government to say it’s not wrong when they do violence and it is wrong when others do it.

A government may commit moral or immoral violence, or express moral or immoral values in its actions.

But it’s not hypocrisy to not want competition. It’s the point of the thing.



>The point of government is to have a monopoly on various kinds of power and control.

That one idea, of many.




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