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This is a direct consequence of having a free will: if only one world leader decides (in his free will) to terrorize others, others must defend themselves again

• crmd 4y ago
  This is the fatal game theory problem with peaceful utopia. All it takes is one sociopath to realize they can increase their power by breaking the rules, and now we need to spend resources on a global police force.
  • goodpoint 4y ago
    > All it takes is one sociopath No, it does not. The are probably tenths of millions of sociopaths out there and 99.99% of them are not given the power to become dictators/CEOs. In healthy societies they don't even get hired as cops.
    • crmd 4y ago
      Power is taken not given. This is why highly competent sociopaths are magnetically attracted to founding and leading large corporations and running for public office. Once in power they use their influence in ways that harms society but helps themselves. I don’t see how a society populated by humans could survive without institutions to protect humanity from the tyrants amongst our own.
      • dane-pgp 4y ago
        > institutions to protect humanity But why do those institutions have to be armed? In theory, if corporations were under sufficiently vigilant democratic control, and the electoral/political system meant that leaders and policies reflected the best interests of most people, then sociopaths would have their power taken from them the moment they tried to wield it in an inappropriate way.
        • goodpoint 4y ago
          An armed organization to "protect us from bad people" sounds like the mob.