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If Mark Zukerberg decides that he wants me dead with no retaliation on himself, there has to be someone with even more teeth than he can hire. And that is the point of a government: we give it a monopoly on legitimate force in our society.
---<p>I believe you're excluding the middle here. Why are the only options "we either give one party a monopoly on violence", or "no such monopoly exists, therefore the rich and powerful can kill whomever they want". Why can't, say, the monopoly on violence be abolished, but have that policing and judicial role be performed by private law?