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If you have a growth and the doctor advises you to remove it, do you ask him what will he replace it with?

Irrelevant, because the OP isn't advocating removing a growth; he's advocating "removing" my entire body structure. If a doctor advised you to get a body transplant, would you not feel the need to ask him what your body was going to be replaced with?



Only if you feel "the entire body" is the government, police, etc.

I'd say there are is an actual country, made of solid land, tons of assets, houses, buildings, shops, companies, and around 350+ million people that are outside of this "whole body" and they can build a new structure if it goes away.

Heck, some say those all are that started the USA in the first place.


A transplant of the entire body might be a bit much as an analogy, yes; but "removing a growth" is far too little. I'm not even sure replacing a single defective organ, which was the analogy another poster used, is enough to convey just how much "the system" now infiltrates every aspect of our lives.

some say those all are that started the USA in the first place

I'm not sure this analogy holds up very well either, because the British government's impact on the colonies was much, much smaller than the current US government's impact on the USA. To "build a new structure if it goes away" would be orders of magnitude more difficult now, and would involve a lot more pain, suffering, and violence.




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