Antifa vs Anticom

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VGPolyglot said:

bdbdbd said:

The violence is used to maintain civil society. People are kept in jail to prevent them doing any more damage - either permanently or a set amount of time.

Now, as you talk about cooperation, isn't this excactly what countries like USA have been doing ever since WW2. If you think Russia is doing like shit today and USA or Germany or Japan is doing good, it's because USA, Germany and Japan have made better friends than Russia. Why do we have this system that's allowed to inflict violence on citizens, is because that's what people want. People want to be protected. They want their kids, friends and other relatives or close ones to be safe. If you can't act the way that other people in society are safe, you need to be removed from the society, either put in jail or expelled.

Many people in jail are either there for non-violent crimes, or are there for charges like theft, which would be much less of a problem if there weren't poor, desperate people. Of course people want to be protected, but the problem is that they simultaneously uphold a repressive system yet also make themselves the only people that can come to our help in times of emergencies. They force us to be reliant on them.

The poor and desperate would not disapear without a government. 

 

The increased monopoly that the government has on violence has lead to a much safer,more peacful world. Times existed where the people had the ability to contest the government, they were generally extremely chaotic. Shortly after the French revolution, none of the several groups that tried to take the position of a government had significant control over the population. It was a time of mass murder, kill or be killed.

 

With the rise of automatisation, perhaps, someday, no human government will be needed. But trying to remove the established without a very specific and concise plan in mind will only lead to catastrophe.