Of course the government provides law in the first world. I've never talked to an anarchist before, but if you can't admit that the state secures property and provides physical security through the threat of violence, while maintaining your argument, you have a shitty argument. If tomorrow there were absolutely no policemen in this country, we'd have chaos by lunchtime, and by chaos I mean increased murder, rape and looting. I tend to see the state and society as either the same thing or very closely related, in that if Eleven NorthKoreans were on one lifeboat and Eleven Brits or Americans were on a second lifeboat, I'd assume the second boat would be more likely to try democrassy to solve its disagreements.