Government is Irrational.

[genkaus]

Those countries are not free from the initiation of violence. I made it very clear, the initiation of violence is wrong, the costume of your masters are irrelevant.

That is the plain and simple truth that you consistently fail to understand. Without a government in place, there would always be initiation of violence. It doesn't matter how much you go around telling everyone that "initiation of force is wrong" - unless there is an overwhelming power ready to retaliate, some people will always initiate it.

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You can have financial incentives by the free market, DRO, etc.

You mean a protection racket.

But the best chance of a peaceful country developing is improving the treatment of children.

All evidence points to the child's relationship with parents as the biggest predictor of adult behaviour. There's countless studies showing adverse childhoods contribute to dysfunctional behaviour in adult life. I think in many ways, politics and religion merely reflect the childhood of society.

The parallels are undeniable. An abusive parent would say "It's not okay for you to hit other children as a 6 year old, but we can rightfully hit you as adults" come 20 years for that child and when the government says "You can't take peoples money or hit other citizens, but it's okay for us to bomb people and throw millions in cages" it makes sense.

What world are you living in? You think that every criminal in the world has had an unhappy and abusive childhood? That no one who has been "brought up correctly" would ever commit a crime? That's so wonderfully naive that it borders on a childlike outlook on life.