This paragraph is a manifestation of a problem with how people think about governments: Governments are not conscious or even sentient. There are no physical en

This paragraph is a manifestation of a problem with how people think about governments: Governments are not conscious or even sentient. There are no physical entities, 'governments', no matter how many times you refer to it in your language. There are interpretable codes, people who execute the codes, and people who assign the codes.