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> History is very clear on this: the biggest enemies of justice have been governments and state sponsored entities, every single time.

If that were true, which it isn't, why did humanity create governments?



> why did humanity create governments?

The same reason "humanity" created mafias and gangs -- which is to use violence as a means of economic control.


It's as or more reasonable to say that governments evolved out of the need to mediate conflicts between people living in groups.


This is also a more reasonable explanation for organized crime, seeing as how criminals cannot rely on the government to mediate criminal disputes.


Organized crime has its own internal governance, hence "organized". So that's no different.


We have a HIVE mentality, as much as we try to hide it with personalization. It is the truth. We work together. WE WORK TOGETHER.


Is that a quote or are you yelling at your monitor?


  That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
  among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent 
  of the governed,


"Humanity" doesn't do anything. Humans do all sorts of things. Why do wolves form packs?


Because violence exists.




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