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Wouldn't it make more sense to want less government and more freedom if one doesn't trust people?

If you don't trust individuals, you're going to need an institution (or private security) to protect you from them. Police, laws, etc.

But those public institutions only give power to individuals. Bad actors are gonna orbit to those positions and abuse them as much as they can.

Private security is a different thing, as the power given is just wages in exchange for a good service, so individuals seeking power wouldn't want to "just have a job" at those.

No, because people exist outside of government.

No amount of government is going to help you there.

Some amount of government helps to some degree, otherwise government and anarchy should be indistinguishable, which is obviously not the case.

What we have now, wherever you are in the world, is, in my approximation, merely a slightly more evolved version of anarchy.

We are only three missed meals away from the marauders coming for your dog.

Don't confuse anarchy with barbarism. Anarchy gives you the linux kernel while barbarism is being sacrificed to your neighbours gods when it doesn't rain in a long time.

Imagine you grow up in a pedo cult and one day black vans drive on the ranch with FBI agents.

Government bad is such an insufferable American take and I scream every time I hear it.

The black vans with federal agents that are snatching people from the streets and killing those that are opposing them pacifically surely scream of government good.

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