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To: tex-oma
I disagree.

"There are some ideas so preposterous, only an intellectual could believe them."
- George Orwell

Maybe you can demonstrate how a government reduces any violence.

Rather amazing that I need to spell this one out to you. That you don't understand indicates you won't get the answer.

If a serial killer gets busy in a city, what happens?
With government, a police force tracks him down and removes him from society.
With anarchy, practically nothing happens, and the crimes continue.

Government is like a lock: at minimum, it keeps the honest people honest.

107 posted on 01/14/2002 12:54:05 PM PST by ctdonath2
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To: ctdonath2
If a serial killer gets busy in a city, what happens? With government, a police force tracks him down and removes him from society. With anarchy, practically nothing happens, and the crimes continue.

In a society where each is responsible 100% for himself, serial killers don't last long, as the populace is armed.

Oh, and honest people don't need anything, especially government, to keep them honest.

110 posted on 01/14/2002 12:59:58 PM PST by Doctor Doom
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To: ctdonath2
If a serial killer gets busy in a city, what happens? With government, a police force tracks him down and removes him from society. With anarchy, practically nothing happens, and the crimes continue

You don't think that people would act to protect themselves against such a person? By hiring private detectives perhaps? I submit that, not only would they do so, they would be far more efficient than the bureaucrats in the police.

112 posted on 01/14/2002 1:02:36 PM PST by Architect
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To: ctdonath2
Government is like a lock: at minimum, it keeps the honest people honest.

And the dishonest ones in Washington.

114 posted on 01/14/2002 1:10:27 PM PST by Architect
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