"So are those countries that are lawless and violent that way because the citizens are just bad people?" Look at the history of urban conflict -- it's virtuall

"So are those countries that are lawless and violent that way because the citizens are just bad people?" Look at the history of urban conflict -- it's virtually impossible even for a high-tech military actor like the USA to effectively police a dense urban area without incurring unacceptable civilian casualties that would further radicalize the population. You can nuke a city, sure. That's easy. But policing a dense city of millions of people even with heavy surveillance and military force is damn hard. If most people weren't basically good, we would indeed live in a lawless hellhole.