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It grants the government the authority to kill a citizen. That's my primary sticking point. The government is beneath us in the democratic power structure. It is a system that we agree to interact with, but it is one that we modify and/or replace as we see fit. Despotism flips that power structure on its head, and granting the government the authority to exact death upon a citizen is one critical part of that cultural and material difference.