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Governments are responsible for considerably more violence than individuals.
by n3rdy 14y ago
Governments are responsible for considerably more violence than individuals.
- EliRivers 14y agoCan you give me some examples of violence that wasn't caused by any individual people?
- n3rdy 14y agoObviously it takes an individual to carry out the violence, but governments have been responsible for organizing mass violence. The millions of deaths from war would have been extremely unlikely to happen unless orchestrated by a government. The exception would be the mexican drug war, but even that could be argued to be caused by government enforced prohibition. Even so, the deaths caused by the cartels are low compared to deaths from wars and genocides that governments have carried out.