Well, if you don't have good guys and bad guys, then the government doesn't have the guise of your protection to justify its having and using monopoly of force.

Well, if you don't have good guys and bad guys, then the government doesn't have the guise of your protection to justify its having and using monopoly of force. Also, I don't think _we_ need them, but narratives that justify the above do. Friends and Seinfeld didn't have heroes and bad guys.