anarchyfla asked: It made sense, but I'm inclined to disagree with you. My position is that I never consented to be governed, and I was never given a real choice in the matter. I don't feel that it is the job of the government to simply give people what they want, especially when it requires a huge infringement on someone else to do so. I don't consent to taxation either, but it isn't up to me. I also don't feel its the government's business to protect people from themselves nor to regulate the economy.

It’s an implicit consent. You consent by driving on the roads the government paved for you, you consent by receiving your education from the schools the government provided for you, you consent by eating the food the government made safe for you to eat.

If government doesn’t do these things for us, how are any of us supposed to survive? How does mankind accomplish anything if we all have to grow our own food (or risk consuming contaminated food)? What if we all had to pave our own roads? What if we were all dying because there was no funding for medical research?

Without the government doing these things for us, we would not only waste our own time doing them for ourselves, but we would also have fewer resources with which to make advancements.