In this discussion I mean to include each and every human need. Now, join me in making the following twelve observations. Every human need correlates with a possible function of state. Government might try to fill the need directly with its own employees. Or it might try to regulate private organizations as they try to fill the need.
Different governments take responsibility for different subsets of needs from the list.
So governments differ, and probably no two governments are exactly the same. Each government is just a collection of agencies, with each agency intended to satisfy some need. So we do not need to struggle with one big decision, of whether to accept or reject government as a whole. Rather we can divide this decision into many little decisions, with one decision for each need. Different people believe government should fill different needs from this list.