Great article by Aaron Ross Powell:
I think much tolerance of the repugnant happens because we let ourselves forget what the state is for. If the state is justified at all, it’s as somewhere to turn for protection. We create the state because we need someone stronger than those who would do us harm. But not just someone stronger. Someone better, too. We need institutions that won’t use the awesome power we give them to do us more violence than the petty criminals we seek protection from.
The state is, in other words, a tool. It exists for a purpose, and thus its every characteristic (size, powers, laws, funding, employees, and so on) should be judged by how well and how efficiently it advances that purpose.
Read more at State Thugs and the Purpose of Government | Libertarianism.org.
It’s not only the petty criminals but also the corporate criminals that justify
a government with enough power to take them on.