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I'm not stating that we abolish government, just that 'checks and balances' are good for government.

Unlimited government power has historically been, well, terrorizing for citizens in the same ways as large crime groups - but far more deadly.

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In that case it's hard to say which deaths are "caused by government". If a government could have imposed a policy that prevented them, are they caused by government? Should we balance that against side effects of such a policy? What about side effects of a feasible way of arriving at such a policy?

If we want to discount such deaths as caused by the government, we will end up with lots of cases of "would not happen but for policy X, but policy Y would have prevented them". From some POV _every single death_ is somehow caused by some policy that's government-imposed. To have a reasonable way to define "caused by government" we need to have something to compare with.

There in general needs to be more accountability for people in power, instead we got reverse, the richer and more powerful someone is the less punishment they get for fuckups (unless they fuck up with wrong people's money I guess).

Hell, politician can lie their way to power, realize nothing of what they promise and still somehow not lose the "job"

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