Only if you use the savings to change the government to be more humane.

I'm not in favor of telling people what to do, in general. As long as what they're doing doesn't cause undue harm to others, it's better than what most governments do nowadays.

We have very different definitions of what is "a favor to society".

Apparently. I see individual freedom as a fundamental basis of a stable society. A society that values that is a "favorable" society, in my view.