"people got along with each other before government"; no, they didn't...any museum worth it's salt has a skull that was bashed in millienia before anyone had said the word government
Not true, there are numerous indigenous people that got along just fine without government. The people of zoomia have been without government for longer than government has been around, they number over one hundred million, and they don't need government, even though there are five distinct cultures.
The assumption that people didn't get along before government is cast aside when you examine the period of anarchy after almost all revolutions which was violently brought to an end by government, sometimes weeks, sometime years later, besides Zomia. Government hasn't brought peace anywhere, and to blame the people for government taking over is equal to blaming someone for getting robbed, raped or murdered. This is evident in all history, before government people were getting along just fine, after government nothing has changed except now people are extorted and subjugated to the mandates and rules of the ruling class. That doesn't solve anything, as there wasn't anything to solve or that it sought to solve other than to extort people under the premise of "protection", it's the classic protection racket that the mob has used.
There are always going to be bandits; government does not create the bandits, but bandits will infest government when the citizenry does not perform their own self-defense duties
Government clearly creates bandits, they are the biggest bandits, they steal more than bandits do through asset forfeiture every single year, and that's just what's reported, they extort everyone for no benefit besides their own, if they aren't there to stop bandits and bandits still exist regardless of government then government isn't doing it's end of the protection racket, but if it was it wouldn't be any more legitimate, because extortion is never legitimate.
when bandits don't have government, it is up to people (who become "citizens" under government, although it's exactly the same group of folks), to bear arms and maintain vigilance against banditry, then kill bandits where they attack.
Those evil bandits that attack, I wonder why Zomia hasn't been taken over by pillaging bandits or have problems with bandits even though they have no government.
When the government becomes bandits you vote them out. Repeat after me "initiating violence to extort is ok if you're doing it to fight off bandits" Obey Obey Obey, limited government, left vs right, those evil bandits will surely take over.
When government is used, it is again up to the citizens to keep bandits out of government, and kill them where they infect it by paying attention to politics and watering the tree of liberty as necessary
When extortion and theft is used, is for the people to keep "bandits" out of extortion and theft. I get it, you're a braindead zombie that believe government is a necessary evil, because hordes of raiders, and who will build the roads. No utopic society means government, or theft, mind control, and initiating force in general is an extension of humanity, because people are extortion loving thieves that have an incessant need to rule or lord over each other, and if you want to be left alone, you better do it with a government.
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Woosh that one minute video really worked up all the braindead rhetoric because so much assumption. Like raiders.
snort, I was going to state specifically that government is NOT a "necessary evil" because I thought you were adult enough to understand that, but congratulations for putting the words in my mouth that you want to argue against
Good luck on your own Utopia!
btw, how are you going to get me to participate in your political fantasy other than use of force?
hopefully, you understand to just leave me out of it ;>