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There's a word to describe the situation where a lack of action can be considered a criminal act. The word is slavery.

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I might be missing the context here. Government inaction is different than individual inaction. If you want to use the analogy, the government should be a slave to the people, yes.

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All legitimate gov't power is the power delegated to it by the people. If I don't have the right to do a certain thing, and my neighbor doesn't have the right to do that certain thing, then where would the gov't get the right to do it. From God?

If it's wrong for me to do it (in principal), and it's wrong for my neighbor to do it (in principal), then it has to be wrong for the gov't to do it.

Unless the gov't has a source of power other than the people.