ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoHow would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up10
arrow-up10message-squareHow would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism?ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIt wouldn’t. Stateless societies don’t work, that’s why despite thousands of years of recorded history, we don’t have any record of one ever succeeding. Even just having a village elder who decides disputes is a form of state. Hell, having parents who decide the rules in a family is a form of state.
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoStates didn’t exist until a few thousand years ago. Hundreds of thousands of years of human history never had states. You don’t need a state to function and reducing the concept of state to encapsulate non-state things (eg. Parenting) is a bit silly.
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThat’s true, but in those ages ppl still got speared in the back or ritually sacrificed. So is this more successful than all of todays states in case of murdering and terrorising? I doubt it.
It wouldn’t.
Stateless societies don’t work, that’s why despite thousands of years of recorded history, we don’t have any record of one ever succeeding.
Even just having a village elder who decides disputes is a form of state. Hell, having parents who decide the rules in a family is a form of state.
States didn’t exist until a few thousand years ago. Hundreds of thousands of years of human history never had states.
You don’t need a state to function and reducing the concept of state to encapsulate non-state things (eg. Parenting) is a bit silly.
That’s true, but in those ages ppl still got speared in the back or ritually sacrificed. So is this more successful than all of todays states in case of murdering and terrorising? I doubt it.