My general point was that the bias means they don't see a need to defend the existence of government, so much as their specific form. So an essay defending the existence of government in the general sense would be forced to at least have some original ideas.

Besides, about the only decent thing I ever got out of that Rhetoric class was that arguments work a lot better when you acknowledge the other side's points.

[Leila might have liked that class more than she's letting on, because as far as she's concerned the entire argument is completely academic. She's planning to write on the anti-government side anyway just for the challenge.]