But that is my point: societies are not as much "designed" as they have evolved through the natural selection process of war. What you see is not the outcome of

But that is my point: societies are not as much "designed" as they have evolved through the natural selection process of war. What you see is not the outcome of a design process, but an evolutionary process that maximizes survivability of the society, not "flourishing" of the individual. From the perspective of our skin cells, which constantly live and die to protect the rest of the organism from outside threats, our own biological evolutionary process has not led to their flourishing. And yet here we are hunans, a society of cells, rather fit to survive yet abother day in the real-world evolutionary environment.