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But if everyone agrees to prevent conquering-by-force, why wouldn't it work?
by wizzwizz4 5y ago
But if everyone agrees to prevent conquering-by-force, why wouldn't it work?
- ativzzz 5y agoBecause whoever has the largest force wouldn't agree to it. For instance, if these counties chose to ignore all the rules and join Idaho, the U.S. has a very large force that it can use to prevent this from happening. In fact, it doesn't even have to use the force, simply having the force is probably enough.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoBecause you can break cities into boroughs and boroughs into neighborhoods and neighborhoods into blocks, and where does it stop? At some point, a tribe has to use force.
- krapp 5y agoHumans don't work that way. We always create hierarchies of power and control, it's innate to our primate nature.
- bilbo0s 5y agoPut more simply, no one would agree to the idealistic utopian-like rule of "no conquering".
- krapp 5y agoPlenty would agree to it, with their fingers crossed behind their backs of course.
- pharke 5y agoI'm reminded of a short sci-fi story I read long ago about an anarchical society where everyone possessed a weapon capable of destroying entire swathes of country side in an instant. It was some form of unlimited energy device that was also used for other less offensive purposes, but everyone carried a sidearm that could emit a beam of energy capable of melting a mountainside into glass. The story focusses around an attempted coup and has an illustrative ending demonstrating the power of such a weapon to deter the use of force to coerce others.
- jessaustin 5y agoMany primates don't do that. Many humans haven't done that. Stop shilling for the patriarchy.
- light_hue_1 5y agoIt doesn't work because of externalities. Like, you live in a city state, that's great, but the rural county that your water comes from decided to elect Trump as their leader-for-life and he decided that all water should now contain uranium and lead to ward off COVID-25. Good luck living!