Firstly, "the government" should BE the public; the government should not be some kind of private or exclusive group of people that make decisions outside of the public's reach, the government should be all of us: the people in society. Anything less would be oligarchic, and if you claim to care about genuine freedom and liberty, then you'd agree. This is incredibly important and you should keep this in mind, because when I say "government", I am not talking about state politicians or presidents or any bureaucratic structures of hierarchy, I am talking about everyone in society, collectively, as all governments should be.
Secondly, just to get the rest of the premises out of the way: 1) I do not believe in your made-up god, so any religious argument you attempt to make regarding so-called "god-given rights" is embarrassingly useless. There is no such thing as an inherent or natural right; rights are made up by us, and can be or not be whatever we want to include as a society. 2) We obviously do not have the same views on private property or freedom. You, as a supporter of capitalism, believe that private individuals should be allowed to buy, sell, and own society's economic means of production, and that doing so is "freedom"; whereas I, a supporter of socialism, believe that private individuals should NOT be allowed to buy, sell, or own society's economic means of production, and that doing so is the denial of others' freedom. I doubt there is anything either of us can say to each other that would change this most fundamental of personal values, so just understand that we view this premise very differently.
Thirdly, the entire purpose of a society, and quite literally the reason we came together to create civilization in the first place, is to provide for each other. We know that we can achieve more as a collective group than any one individual can achieve alone, and so we live and work together so that we can all benefit from the collective labor of each other. This is literally the sole purpose of a society. There is no point in even having a society to begin with if our own labor is not providing for the benefit of everyone. We already produce enough to provide for everyone who needs it, yet private individuals who hold exclusive ownership over the things society works to create prevent that from happening. This is not a system that is even designed to be beneficial for everyone, which is not only bad, but blatantly anti-societal. If a system does not work for the interests of the people, then it should be abolished and replaced with one that does, regardless of what traditionalist laws or values need to be overthrown.
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