From 1900-1987, over 169 million people were killed by government alone. Most of these deaths came from non-democratic, dictatorial regimes, but over 500 thousand were killed by the US government, most in bombings of non-combatants (a practice which the US condemned as being against international law in the 1930s). Given these figures, should we not reconsider the most common justification of government, that it is necessary to prevent the violations of rights? Government is not the answer. Government is the problem.
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