Some thoughts and a question about government.

What has government force ever done that regular people working together voluntarily can't do...?
Other than perhaps break moral values and.. Monopolize force in a given culture of domesticated people?

Said another way.. As someone who no longer believes in government, IE force/control over the people. The word govern means control and the word ment is either the state of being, or "mind".. Either way it means "control" either mind control or the state of being controlled, but it means control.

So.. Since I think it is immoral to forcefully control others, and government is essentially a monopoly on force.. I'll often hear people say that government is necessary for something.. Like.. Maintaining the roads, or welfare services or the military or whatever.

But if you think about it.. All of those things exist in private form within the umbrella of this United States government we have.
Can't speak for the rest of the world, but here we have private military, we have private police, we have private roads being built and we have private individuals helping others voluntarily with their welfare issues.

All of the things statists tend to claim we NEED government for, exist already in a free state.
So.. Genuinely asking.. What does government do that regular people acting voluntarily can not? Other than the couple examples I listed above like breaking moral values by using unjust force and monopolized force. What else..?

I've had one person tell me before that he thinks we need government for researching and developing new technology, but I pointed out how the dudes who were credited with inventing human flight were doing it on a shoe string budget out of a passion for it while the government funded teams who had all the money in the world floundered.

And, I'd say probably much of the most important tech is created in the private sector with no government intervention, and ultimately.. Whether government is involved or not.. It's individual people in the end who are doing these things, they don't NEED to be forced by government or funded by them, it could happen in other ways.

Oh and.. In my own view, I do claim the title of Anarchist because I don't believe we should be "ruled over" but sometimes I'll play the role of Libertarian/minarchist and play the role of "as small a government as possible" and if that were the case, the only one I could justify is a government military.

Yet I no longer believe in National lines, or for the right of governments to supersede individual rights, so.. I think it would be better if we had a private military founded on better and more honorable principles, clearly the military we have is a disaster going around the world murdering millions of innocent people, that's not acceptable.

It would be nice if we could just dismantle the military and live peacefully but there's always a chance a threat from outside earth could appear and we should be prepared to defend ourselves against predator aliens or whatever.. So I do see a need for military at least until we discover if there are other threats out there in the universe.

But.. I dunno.. It's difficult to say cause our current military is so corrupt and fucked up, it seems like it would be less corrupted and fucked up if it were run by individuals with good values than by a secret cabal of dark occult Satanists essentially, or in regular language.. Sociopaths, which is what government tends to attract.

Government by it's very nature attracts sociopaths and those who want to control others, so.. It's really tough if not impossible to find a "good group" of people to immorally and dishonorable exert force and control others in my opinion.

It just doesn't make sense.. How can good people doing a bad thing be so desired and celebrated and on top of that, how could good people doing bad things be a necessary part of our society? That sounds incredibly flawed/defeatist and it needs to be rethought.

If someone tells me we need to do immoral things for society to work, I am extremely skeptical. I immediately try to think of other possibilities.