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Sufficiently advanced crime is indistinguishable from sovereignty.

• humanrebar 11y ago
  As long as we agree that sovereignty and legitimacy are two different things.
  • skrebbel 11y ago
    Of course, and I bet that's the GP's point. In fact, the commonly held definition of a state is the organization that holds the monopoly of violence. Whether that organization is a United Nations member state or haunted down by Interpol has historically depended more on old friendships and stalemates and Who Has The Oil than anything else.