I'll also add this expanding on Passio's parenting analogy. If we take his analogy literally then every 21 year old should wholly and completely disown their parents. Of course, this is absurd. a healthy child will maintain a healthy relationship with their aging parents. I'm not disagreeing that the parent nation-state today isn't a toxic parent--it is for the most part, but it doesn't have to be. We could have a ​healthy government but we allowed the mafia to co-opt it in the past century. We now live in their casino...