Jacoby wrote:
lol, i'll be grateful for our government when they stop murdering, torturing, and stealing from the people. that will never happen since that's what government does. Government is violence.
It's true, our government needs reforming in some respects.
However, if it didn't exist, you would have huge vigilante gangs roaming around looting, kidnapping, trafficking, stealing property. You wouldn't have central organization that's crucial for civilization. It would be much worse than it is now, and you wouldn't like it.
Things could actually be much worse than they are now.
In the US, you have the right to vote elected officials into office. If you don't like your government, you have to remember, you voted for them in the first place. You have to take some responsibility for the way things are since we live in a representative democracy. You can't lay the blame entirely on the government.