"Rebellious adolescents proclaim that they need not their parents' "coddling," but those who aquiesce to the shrill demands of these children are the parents who are unfit as human beings."

Indeed, and this is proved by evolution, while your invocation of 'social darwinism' is the antithesis of reality, a hallucinatory fantasy of just rulers.

"It is the duty of the sovereign to protect their subjects..."

And it is this last that is the proof of the hallucinatory nature of your thesis, as it is the overlords that prey on, rather than protect, their victims. That is the reality for which you advocate: perennial parasitism of people pleading for protection provided by public purse. Wealth alone is protection, and independent means is wealth. Decentralized means of production eventuate, and the advantage of parasites over producers disappears, despite your protestations of benevolence and claims of superiority, the actual universe itself denies your claims.

Good. I will trust physics over pilpul, and without regret.