Force or Inconvenience: Is All Government Really an Instrument of Force?

Thanks for your response.

You're assuming the State endorses the killing of Garner and that it intended the killing.

Yes, there are incompetent and even racist police out there and I wouldn't defend them for a second.

But, 1.), the policy only says to arrest people such as Garner, not kill them. That his death occurred cannot be attributed to the official policy. 2.) Garner's death was the result of either an accident or police acting against official government policy.

Additionally, Garner had a choice, as well. He could have complied more easily, of course, as well as not challenged the law.

And lastly, as I contend, if any law adopted through democratic debate is so objectionable to any citizen, they have the option of renouncing their citizenship and severing their ties and responsibilities to the State that adopted and enforces that law.

If you are remaining in a State which you know has a working policy of debating and adopting laws that are enforced, and that is objectionable to you, it is your responsibility to either try to overturn that policy in a legislative branch of government or renounce your citizenship and leave, as that option is provided to you.

The alternative would be to impose an anarchy on millions of people who may not want to live under an anarchy. And that is the same kind of forced compliance you accuse the State of...if anarchy is the agreed upon law people live under, the only option available to the citizen who opposes anarchy is to leave the anarchy.

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