> Because it's literally their job: Protect the citizen. That is not automatically the government's job. At least not in every worldview. And these things exi

> Because it's literally their job: Protect the citizen. That is not automatically the government's job. At least not in every worldview. And these things exist on a spectrum. Protecting people from direct external threats is pretty unobjectionable to most philosophical systems that allow governments, but there's a lot more controversy around protecting people from themselves.