It's little things like not having all my stuff taken from me by armed thugs and not getting murdered that are important to me.
In my country (the U.S.) neither the federal nor state governments have any obligation to protect me from criminals (1). In fact, if the statistics are accurate, my country has a higher murder rate (5 per 100K) than the "libertarian paradise" of Somalia (3.2 per 100K) (2) who have no central government (3).
1) See DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
In my country (the U.S.) neither the federal nor state governments have any obligation to protect me from criminals (1). In fact, if the statistics are accurate, my country has a higher murder rate (5 per 100K) than the "libertarian paradise" of Somalia (3.2 per 100K) (2) who have no central government (3).
1) See DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia