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It's called a state. It has a monopoly on violence. It doesn't take kindly to competition. (Stupid question warrants a stupid answer. Other than the fact that
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
It's called a state. It has a monopoly on violence. It doesn't take kindly to competition.
(Stupid question warrants a stupid answer. Other than the fact that you're relying on a fallacy of evoking a nostalgic period that probably never was, there's the whole matter of the French government ordering a curfew on its citizens for them to stay inside. As such, your scenario of French men taking up arms is explicitly forbidden by the government, and will likely get you killed if you attempted it.)
- AnimalMuppet 11y ago> and will likely get you killed if you attempted it. And not just because it's forbidden by the government. It also makes it much more likely that you get confused with the people the government is trying to stop. (In your own thinking, you may be trying to stop them, too, but the government doesn't know that.)