Just curious: please name a "balanced state" (not the American colonies or late 19th century US, or the Roman Republic, but today). Or maybe it's the definition of what you mean by 'balanced'. At what percent of forcible confiscation of your labor (let alone confiscation of other inherent rights like privacy and speech) to support immoral wars and grift are you balanced? 5%, 20%, 50%, 70%? At what point are you more slave than free? What ever happened to voluntary state militias for defense and private charity? As George Washington said in his farewell address: government is force. The only way for most people to "balance" it is to use decentralized tools or gray/black markets that the state by its very controlling definition hates. I think statists generally refer to these tools as creating a state of "anarchy" to be feared. Sadly, in an era where only 1 or 2 out of 435 "representatives" are "balanced" in the sense of respecting my freedom and property (to use the US government leviathan as example), agorism is the only method most people can resort to in order to reign in the predations of the state; and the resistance method has been quite effective down through the centuries. I have never had a single voluntary (non-coercive) interaction with the state. As more people opt out, the government must change (Bitcoin being just one recent example). Sincerely, LoLbertarian