>>17758147
>You're supposed to take care of yourself, you're so mindbroken by modern statism you think the government's job is to babysit you
Deeply retarded reply.
It is not me that decides the State has to protect me, it is the State that enforces that protection at the threat of imprisonment if I don't give them my money.
The nation and the people are the same thing. When you protect me from the Mexicans, Canadians, Chinese, etc., you are acting as a bodyguard to me. Relative distance is irrelevant because it is a duty for a parent to protect their child, but not their duty to prevent their kid from scraping their knees. Just because the protection has a practical limit, doesn't mean that it isn't still a duty.

The State has claimed for itself a duty of protection and enforces that with violence against me.
And I have no ability to secede from this protection racket, either. I can't tell the US Army that my home is my responsibility and they don't have to hold off the Chinese from invading, I'll handle that.