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Who said 'only'? The threat of punishment is not needed to prevent most people from killing, most of the time. But it sure does help in some edge cases!
by retsibsi 3y ago
Who said 'only'?
The threat of punishment is not needed to prevent most people from killing, most of the time. But it sure does help in some edge cases!
- johnisgood 3y agoAnd what makes you think that there would be no threat of punishment in say, an anti-statist society?
- retsibsi 3y agoI was responding to the line "if it is only the laws that are keeping people from killing each other, we are in big trouble". My point is that clearly it's not only the laws (and the parent commenter never claimed so), but they do help. Sure you can replace the current system of laws & law enforcement with something else. (And if you tore down the state, something would certainly fill that power vacuum.) But then you have to grapple with basically all the same problems.
- johnisgood 3y ago> My point is that clearly it's not only the laws (and the parent commenter never claimed so), but they do help. Well, I agree with that.