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It's not a great analogy. At the level of states, you have anarchy. This is the key insight of realism. There is no authority that places guardrails on how eac
by hackerlight 4y ago
It's not a great analogy.
At the level of states, you have anarchy. This is the key insight of realism. There is no authority that places guardrails on how each state treats each other. So each state needs to arm themselves.
At the level of people, you do not have anarchy. You have police which acts as the hegemon.
- darthrupert 4y agoI mean... on an individual level it's obviously true: if there's a determined active shooter, there's probably not much more you can do than try to shoot them first. On society level it's indeed a bit more complicated matter. Every additional gun in the society is potentially one more gun in the hands of a bad person.