To the statist, there's a government non-solution to every problem. One of the most important practical points you raise (since logic and morality don't seem to be compelling enough for some) is that it's not our slavery that makes us prosperous, but the fact that our slavery is less severe (our "relative freedom"). The causation fallacy of "government, therefore prosperity" is one of the biggest intellectual hurdles facing the modern abolitionist movement.
I think the statist just puts faith in the government solution, because it’s easy to just say, “hey I’ll turn this problem over to ‘them’ because I don’t have the desire, or the imagination, to fix that problem myself.”
Absolutely. We're just trained since birth to think this is appropriate. Mentioning the idea of a person having to defend themselves and their own neighborhood with a firearm is unthinkable to many people. They'd be utterly mortified by the mere mention of it. Just think of how insane that is... the fundamental reality of having to protect your family and your general area from threats is actually taboo amongst one of the species of this planet. A fascinating phenomenon worthy of extra-terrestrial scientific inquiry.
