• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    A thief is safer under a state because the state can punish those who defend themselves. The point of the state is to be the only ones able to dispense justice.

    If someone stole from me, me or my community can dispense justice without fear of the state. Communities tend to not fuck with each other too much lest they start battles, which nobody wants. Humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years without states.

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      7 months ago

      The age of tribes was fucking brutal. They attacked and extinguished each other regularly.

      • mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        There’s just as much or more evidence for groups living mostly peacefully also.

        There is no perfect world where nobody dies. We are just way more efficient at at now and at keeping the mess in places where there are mostly non-wealthy people. Is that an improvement?