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Re:Why Do We Admire Mobsters? by lifeformed on Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:59PM (#10235009)
Are there any proposed systems in which a billion person society can function without centralized violence?
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Re:Why Do We Admire Mobsters? by Kalium on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:25PM (#10235192)
There are many such proposed systems. A better question is if there are any such proposed systems that aren't silly and predicated an a refusal to understand human nature.

I know a number of communists and anarchists who seem to believe they can just wish away aspects of primate psychology.

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