If you want to have a philosophical discussion about whether that is really the "sole purpose of government", then I suppose we could have one, though frankly my interest in that isn't all that high.
That's a long way from asserting that it is, in fact, the sole purpose of government, which was what I objected to.
That's a long way from asserting that it is, in fact, the sole purpose of government, which was what I objected to.