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Seriously, if your argument is that I need to be compelled to pay for the mechanized mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, in wars which you yourself admit to be disastrous failures and grave assaults on fundamental human rights, because, hey, if you didn’t have the institutional apparatus to force me to pay up for those, then it might also be difficult to pay for repairs to the Interstate Highway System or fund the NEA or build a hydroelectric dam, then really you have no business at all talking to me about “civilization.”