I'm not assuming your reply. I am, however, strategically positing a typical response to my statements, which, even if it was exactly what you would have written, you've automatically had to reshape your reply in response to your taking offense to my reply. So... Not arrogance, just experience with these kinds of interactions. 😎 Everything these days is coercive. That's the point. I'm choosing to live a life that doesn't further that coercion for myself, primarily, my family, and if I am ever blessed with children, especially for them. I'm not in la-la land. I'm facing reality. You are the one who is hiding behind the delusions of the state and "civil society." You won't face the facts that you can't survive without the fabric of the enslavement you've been wrapped in since before you were even born. I'm unwrapping that fabric layer by layer and also opening a path for my closest friends and family. To be honest, it's overwhelming, and in think that when peaking at that scares you in your normie-tude. I can, actually, survive 5 minutes without much of anything other than what I carry on my back. But you seem to have the unfounded notion that I am an anarchist. I'm not. So, try again. I don't want to live with all the "mod cons." Most of those are entrapment. That being said, I already have the knowledge and skills to build a very wide variety of off-grid solutions for power and heat and water access. I can live quite comfortably nearly anywhere. So, thanks for your concern, but I'll be fine. In fact, more fine in many ways than most. 😁 No, I don't want to pay for a fire department. I would chip in for a good nurse. If insurance and government distortions to the healthcare market didn't exist as they do today, I wouldn't even mind chipping in for a small trauma center in case of a catastrophic accident. But other than that? I don't need or want much of anything else. I am not going to be building a house that's prone to fire. I'm usually careful about doing stuff that can kill me. But, in the worst case, I die and don't bother anyone by my death. That's a better way to go than most. I don't need police. I have enough ammo to take care of anyone violent or thieving. Police are just the armed thugs of corrupt government. There are too many laws that are just made to increase the amount of extortion collected to line pockets. It's an entirely unnecessary system.