The article puts forward the notion that "the universe is simply too big for a government to establish law and order in a top-down fashion." However, conflict w

The article puts forward the notion that "the universe is simply too big for a government to establish law and order in a top-down fashion." However, conflict will most assuredly not be "extremely difficult to avoid" because space is large, and interstellar travel will always be extraordinarily difficult and slow. There will be no war between two groups when they have basically no interaction whatsoever.