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Civil wars? Latin America, in general, is a good example of a lack of trust in institutions. A lot of energy is spent working around them to do everything and

Civil wars? Latin America, in general, is a good example of a lack of trust in institutions. A lot of energy is spent working around them to do everything and it permeates society itself, as you can't trust anyone, you have to expect everyone is trying to scam you all the time as you have non recourse if they actually are.

jpk 3y ago
I'm not sure you completed the thought. You put forward civil war as the outcome of widespread distrust in institutions, but then gave an example of society continuing to function just with greater discomfort, inefficiency, and crime. What's the path from that, to war?
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- llm_trw 3y ago
  A civil war doesn't mean that you have troops shooting each other in the streets of every city. It means that there are regions where the government can't project authority. Ukraine before the Russian invasion was a perfect example. You could walk around Kiev without a care in the world, 500km to the east you had death squads trying to suppress an honest to god soviet insurgency.
  - immibis 3y ago
    Then aren't they just the government?
    - pixl97 3y ago
      It depends if you consider a group not based on the rule of law a government.
      - lispisok 3y ago
        Where does the rule of law come from?
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        mlinhares 3y ago
        From the (almost) monopoly on violence.
      - immibis 3y ago
        Are the current governments in the USA and Germany governments?
  - brabel 3y ago
    > 500km to the east you had death squads trying to suppress an honest to god soviet insurgency. Wasn't the Maidan Revolution in 2014 also an "insurgency" against the government right in the center of Kiev?
- mlinhares 3y ago
  Haiti, a considerable part of sub Saharan Africa, Burma, there’s plenty of examples of society failing and leading to civil war.