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While you are explicitly correct, the implication is that institutions deserve respect by virtue of being institutions. Respect should be earned, or rather, given until proven unworthy. I refuse to respect an institution that fails to acknowledge the sanctity of life, much less fulfills the needs of the people it governs.
Yeah, the ATF for instance. Anyone knowledgeable about the ATF does not trust it, after Waco and Ruby Ridge
you can say this all you want, but this line of thinking is the exact reason why we're where we are today. People like you check out, and start voting for memes, or shitpost value, rather than actually fixing issues, and putting the government in a more respectable position, which leads to people like Lauren Boebert, and MTG being actual real people in the US congress.
and likewise, that government will fail to respect your wishes for a functional government that does anything at all. It's a tripping point, once you trip, you fall down the mountain, and it's really, and i mean really hard to get back up.