• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      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.