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Re:Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangero... by quadrangle on Friday October 04, 2013 @01:56PM (#6496858)
It's as or more reasonable to say that governments evolved out of the need to mediate conflicts between people living in groups.
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Re:Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangero... by manicbovine on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:07PM (#6497292)
This is also a more reasonable explanation for organized crime, seeing as how criminals cannot rely on the government to mediate criminal disputes.
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Re:Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangero... by quadrangle on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:15PM (#6509672)
Organized crime has its own internal governance, hence "organized". So that's no different.
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