&gt; Although we may have needed government to stifle private violence in the past, I don&#x27;t think we do any longer.<p>We moved from private jackbooted-thugs-for-hire to public police protection because thugs-for-hire are <i>unaccountable</i>. Sadly, over the past hundred years or so we&#x27;ve forgotten this lesson, lost our vigilance, and have permitted many of our public servants to make themselves largely unaccountable for their actions.<p>Power and leadership structures naturally emerge in sufficiently large groups of people. This is <i>unavoidable</i>, even in sufficiently large anarchist organizations.<p>As the Dothan, AL incident has most recently demonstrated, evil people come to power from time to time. All healthy organizations <i>must</i> be able to detect evil people and remove them from power.<p>In your future where government is no longer permitted to apply force, where is the accountability? Who detects and ejects evil? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?