I largely agree with you up until your last sentence. The mistake you're making is equating the government with the village. That is a fundamental mistake and f

I largely agree with you up until your last sentence. The mistake you're making is equating the government with the village. That is a fundamental mistake and failure that seems extremely widespread. Civil Society needs to address this problem. Bastiat has a passage in the Law which touched on this, though he is specifically talking about socialists: > Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.