The Territorial Monopolist: A Necessary Evil?

There's no reason anyone would need a territorial monopoly on ultimate decision making with regard to all conflicts (even those involving themselves) in order for there to be peace, order, prosperity or roads.

Furthermore, a territorial monopoly on ultimate decision making necessarily implies a territorial monopoly on taxation, meaning prices for the goods provided by way of the territorial monopoly on ultimate decision making would be set randomly by fiat instead of by market price discovery. This is the underlying reason why territorial monopolies are inherently wasteful and unsatisfactory from the perspective of the consumers they are forced upon.

And worse still, any good provided by way of the territorial monopoly on ultimate decision making is offset by the production of a "bad" that precipitated the provision of said good in the first place - namely, taxation. The compulsory nature of taxation means that taxation is a win-lose transfer of capital from the private property owner to the monopolist instead of a win-win transfer of capital, like that which occurs during consensual exchange between private property owners.

A common knee-jerk objection to this line of reasoning is incredulity with regard to the provision of territorial defense, yet this criticism falls flat due to the fact that the existence of a territorial monopoly on the provision of defense would allow any invader to conquer all people already subjugated by the territorial monopoly on defense simply by conquering said monopoly, as was the case with the British in India.

Not only would a territorial monopoly on ultimate decision making fail to meet the objective for which it was allegedly granted by expropriating the property of the people it is alleged to protect, its auspices would explicitly place the individuals to which the monopoly is granted outside the scope of this expropriation, thereby depriving their victims of any chance at restitution.

Because when there's a territorial monopoly on ultimate decision making, there's no way to appeal the ultimate decisions of the individuals holding the monopoly. That's why there's no accountability when it comes to "government" - especially "democratic government".