"... you always have to start from where you are!"

The state (government) often acts in an attempt to regulate and control values.

Values however cannot be regulated, because they are relative; in other words they are dependent upon individual and subjective human evaluation.

Individuals who do not understand the market injure themselves and others by asking government to intervene in the market.

There are only two ways for individuals to organize and produce.  One is through coercion, and the other is by mutual consent (voluntarism).

The government method is almost universally coercive.  It depends upon the active application of force, or at the very least the potential and threat of force.

The marketplace method is voluntary.  It depends upon mutual and willing agreement between the cooperating parties.

Government and the market are opposites.  When government stops using coercion and the threat or use of force, it stops being government.

Conversely, when the market stops being voluntary, it ceases being the market, and becomes something more akin to government, or a criminal gang engaged in extortion and racketeering.

The governmental method (including when being used by private entities otherwise engaged in the market) has produced all of the wars, all of the taxation, and a great deal of the viciousness and brutality that the human race has experienced in all of history.

Even if one is to stipulate that some form or amount of government is necessary to human society, it should be obvious that the less government presence and interference in human affairs and the market, the better.