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At this point you only have your own kingdom if you have a standing army with nuclear weapons, you are sovereign, everyone else rents, this is just physics, the
by SigmundA 2y ago
At this point you only have your own kingdom if you have a standing army with nuclear weapons, you are sovereign, everyone else rents, this is just physics, the details are social contracts.
- tshaddox 2y agoHaving your own nuclear weapons is probably like having firearms in your home in that you’re actually more likely to be the victim of that class of weapons.
- account42 2y agoYour claim about nuclear weaposn increasing the risk of being subjected to nuclear attacks has no historical basis. If anything, there is evidence for the opposite. Even for private firearm ownership you'd need to show more than just correlation to make that claim.
- SigmundA 2y agoThe alternative is you don't have them and you rent protection from someone who does.
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- EarlKing 2y agoA certain medieval gentlemen from Alamut would beg to differ. One does not need a standing army and nuclear weapons so much as the ability to inflict your politics on others credibly and unavoidably. There are many ways to do that, not all of which necessarily involve violence. Put another way: There are many minority populations throughout history and up to this very day that have managed to carve out a niche in their host population without necessarily employing mass violence to do it.
- throwaway48476 2y agoAll politics is violence by other means.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt does make Clausewitz's saying about war being "politics by other means" back in context when you put it that way. But really politics is just about "one person causes another to act". This can be through persuasion. It doesn't have to be force (or fraud for that matter).
- throwaway48476 2y agoPersuasion is merely the implication of force. All actions can be explained through the language of force from the tenuous to the direct.
- HPsquared 2y agoConsider the persuasion of making a sale. That's not force. People can sell political ideas in the same way, they can spread virally. EDIT: Also I consider economics, politics and marketing as basically "mass psychology". Hence all the problems with replication in those fields. EDIT 2: And with these things being psychology, there's a big "default biological drives" component. A lot of the motivations for political etc actions are internal to each person.