> Governments are the source of the biggest atrocities and injustices in history
And you have the data to back that up or is it just simple libertarian zealotry?
There are so many other forms of power abuse: economic power abuse from income inequalities (e.g: corporations bribing politicians with campaign contributions), intimidation by violence (e.g: criminals, abusive domestic partners), cults and other ideologically closed communities (e.g. Jehovah Witnesses, fundamentalist/orthodox religions), frauds and misleading propaganda (e.g. Purdue labs sparking opioid epidemics with Oxycontin), ...
But for libertarians' paranoia is just government, government, government,...
Transatlantic slave trade (was done mostly by non-government actors), the Dutch East Indian Company colonization of Indonesia, drugs traffic in the 20th century, the cumulative effects of poisoning from tetraethyl lead,...
And btw, I also mentioned the ongoing plague of opioids addiction sparked by Purdue pharma. Didn't you read it?
> Transatlantic slave trade (was done mostly by non-government actors)
The laws upholding slavery were government action, without which there would have been no slave trade because without government support to hunt them down the slaves would all just run away.
> the Dutch East Indian Company colonization of Indonesia
The Dutch East Indian Company was essentially a government. You can't "colonize" anything and not be a government.
> drugs traffic in the 20th century
The result of government prohibition creating a black market.
> the cumulative effects of poisoning from tetraethyl lead
> the ongoing plague of opioids addiction sparked by Purdue pharma
These things are certainly bad, but Stalin killed more than 20 million people. If you were to nuke five cities the size of Los Angeles it wouldn't be that many people. These things aren't even the same order of magnitude.
The problem with that is that you can't pin it on any single entity and many of the guilty parties are governments, e.g. Saudi Arabia, any state-owned oil company, US government subsidies for oil companies, zoning regulations that induce people to drive cars because it's illegal to build enough housing near the jobs etc.
And you have the data to back that up or is it just simple libertarian zealotry?
There are so many other forms of power abuse: economic power abuse from income inequalities (e.g: corporations bribing politicians with campaign contributions), intimidation by violence (e.g: criminals, abusive domestic partners), cults and other ideologically closed communities (e.g. Jehovah Witnesses, fundamentalist/orthodox religions), frauds and misleading propaganda (e.g. Purdue labs sparking opioid epidemics with Oxycontin), ...
But for libertarians' paranoia is just government, government, government,...