Government needs to be abolished

I shall give my first argument. You state that without government, we will still have rules. Leadership is a human trait, and there will always be some sort of coalition. With that coalition, more people will join, and it will eventually evolve back into a government, albeit not a Democracy for the most part. What you state is what I agree with, I find government to be inefficient with its money, I find government to be stupid and corrupt, and that we should limit it, but not abolish it. Businesses absolutely do require governments to operate in the modern era. Who do you think ensures their contracts? Who protects them from angry customers? Who sets regulations that everyone must follow, to keep the immoral business-folk from winning (which they will)? Who protects their assets from their competitors? Who ensures the value of currency? Who guarantees banked assets? Who teaches their employees the skills they need to succeed? Who builds the unprofitable roads that bring goods to market? To be specific, let's pick one industry: Tourism. It depends on a safe transportation system (government). It depends on people having vacation (most places, government) and days off every week (government). It depends on people being able to leave their home and expect it to still be in one piece when they return (government). It depends on subsidies and advertising (government). It depends on reining in unruly visitors (government), and keeping places clear of undesirables (government). It depends (in most places) on a large mass of people who can speak foreign languages (government). Private defense agencies? If you can't afford it, then what? On your own? If you have the time... and a bunch of friends or family to fight with you. Private fire departments? Crassus, one of the original Roman triumvirate, was perhaps the wealthiest man in history. "How is this relevant?" you ask? He owned a private fire department. Fire breaks out, here they come to save your house, with a catch: You have to sell it to him at whatever price he feels like offering. Don't wanna move? No problem: He'll rent it back to you. Using these not-illegal techniques, Crassus quickly amassed such a large property base that he was able to finance governments and wars (One of which he led, but he got captured and killed. Just goes to show, massive success in one area of business doesn't guarantee success in any other). Now, look how quickly that descended into required violence. Just to save your burning house. That savagery is to be expected, because history is clear: In government-free societies (hunter-gatherers, gangland, boom-towns in the "Wild" West, extremely isolated areas, tribal areas), violent death is hundreds of times more frequent than it is in government-run societies. The reason is straightforward: When there is no third-party deterrent and no third-party justice system for recourse, the only way to hope to prevent wrongdoing is to inflict swift and overwhelming violence. Self-help justice, if you will. Coupled with a quirk of human psychology whereby we minimize the wrongs we do to others while inflating the wrongs done to us, self-help justice leads straight to cycles of revenge killing. Vendettas. Blood feuds. Range wars. Worse, a culture of honor develops, where people become ultra-sensitive to the slightest insult, treating them as attacks as vicious as any violent blow. This leads to the same kinds of revenge-fueled violence. Some places ritualized the violence into dueling, in the hopes of reducing it. Eventually it was banned, because it is savage... and also because morals have changed over the last 200 or so years rendering honor and pride things not worth spilling blood over. But all that required government intervention. Read Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, which lays out the philosophical foundation of the social contract. Basically, he argues that human nature and scarce resources guarantee that without some kind of governance, anarchy and "war of all against all" are the inevitable outcomes: "In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently, not culture of the earth, no navigation, nor the use of commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Then look at nations around the world without effective government, like Somalia. Seems to be pretty much dead on.