You (and others on this thread, on both sides) are pretending that there&#x27;s no gradation between &quot;roving bands of cannibal looters&quot; (the &quot;Mad Max&quot; scenario) and &quot;Tyrannical government controls every single aspect of your daily life&quot; (the &quot;1984&quot; scenario), when in fact there is a <i>very large</i> amount of space between those two scenarios.<p>That is a fundamentally dishonest argument.<p>There are honest discussions of exactly where the boundaries on government power should lie, but this isn&#x27;t one of them.