The problem isn't between statists and anarchists, just like the problem isn't between republicans and democrats.

The problem is between good and evil.  Evil is an entropy, a cancer, that will eventually come in whenever it is allowed.  Evil will find a way to circumvent any system.  Without a decent system in place, evil may arrive that much faster.

If the people are not guarding against this evil unofficially, or if they have no help officially, it will conquer that much more quickly.

The proper solution is extremely limited government whose only job is to protect individual rights, and an informed populace whose every member is dedicated to this goal.

This one is an extremely air-tight logical assault on Statism, both in the ideal and in the real world. Much better than the first one. But I agree with TC that we can and should delegate those rights that we clearly DO have when it benefits us. In short, where's my libertarian right to have a limited state? Are you going to defend that? Or will you nanny it away from me?

If I pay a man to guard my chicken coop at night, I'm probably doing so because I can make a whole lot more money by doing my own skilled work by day. I don't personally want to waste my time guarding the coop and halt my production of widgets or whatever in order to do so. In this very limited way, I would rather there was a Sheriff around to deal with crap that costs me much more time and money to deal with myself. Sure I'd be available for deputizing as needed when things got to big for him to handle alone.

But, absent this impeachable Sheriff, the county would have huge problems. Evil would in fact abound. Family would feud on family. Violence would escalate out of control. Shiny badges are sometimes handy, especially when I myself have much better things to do than wear one. You do realize that "Statism" specifically does NOT mean "belief in a useful State", right? It means religious or dogmatic allegiance to a State that no longer safeguards our freedoms against real, actual enemies. States are like hedges. They need constant trimming. Once overgrown, they need to be chopped off near the ground so they can become beautiful again.