Statists prefer the certainty of monopoly violence to the outside threat of random and sporadic violence. Apparently, a centralized mayhem apparatus is the sine qua non to an orderly society. And they call anarchists utopian!

"Please, Dear Criminal Government, tax me, spy on me, debauch my currency, conscript me, lie to me, threaten me with bodily injury up to and including death. If you don't do it, society's bad guys will do it. I won't live in a world without order!"