The alternative of no or tightly-limited government is potentially worse. It's an economic form of the paradox of tolerance. One can imagine all kinds of exoti

The alternative of no or tightly-limited government is potentially worse. It's an economic form of the paradox of tolerance. One can imagine all kinds of exotic forms of government that don't resemble a traditional large and centrally organized state, which still accomplish summer all of the goals that we might want a state to accomplish. But so far we have never seen that put into effect at any scale above a commune. So we are kind of stuck with the binary choice for the time being.