> Once "crime" gets bad enough, the state begins to lose its monopoly on force, and I'm not sure it is possible to recover from that. Exactly, it's the old hob

> Once "crime" gets bad enough, the state begins to lose its monopoly on force, and I'm not sure it is possible to recover from that. Exactly, it's the old hobbes-ian dilemma, you need a "Leviathan" to hold said monopoly on force no matter what, otherwise you risk sinking into a civil war situation.