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-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.
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.