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The Government's job is to protect rights.
Man's state in nature, where all men are allowed complete discretion in the use of force, according to the laws of the jungle, is nothing more than a state of anarchy -- perpetual civil war and gang warfare. To place the retaliatory use of force under objective legal control -- under clearly defined laws that are logically based on the principle of rights -- a society of men delegate to government, their right to retaliate against those who initiate force.
Government is an agency which has a monopoly on the use of physical force.
This legal power -- to use physical force -- only may be used for one purpose: to retaliate against those who initiate force, according to objectively defined laws.
Never is this power to be used to initiate force, but government is only permitted to retaliate and defend against those who initiate force.