...sigh. Okay, put it like this. We're clearly arguing past each other. I think your points are self-evidently wrong, and your arguments bordering on trolling. I am sure this is not how the discussion appears to you, and you may feel that my points are equally bad, but we're not making any progress here. And it's degenerating into a Standard Political Debate - basically a libertarian "no coercive government is ever okay" position versus a utilitarian "sometimes it's an optimal solution" position, which has been done about a billion times and about which there is very little left to be said.

That leaves us with two options. We can either continue unproductively wasting time and energy on a particularly unproductive version of a cliched topic that neither of us can realistically affect, all the while breaking the Less Wrong gentlemens' agreement against explicit political discussions. Or one person can bow out and allow the other person to take the last word.