[alanwatts]

Violence and waging war is/was commonly considered an honorable deed by many tribal cultures.

Pathological inequality is not.

>laws are there to enforce our human understanding of fairness against our human nature of selfishness and greed.

The fallacy of this statement is that laws are just words in paper which have no power to enforce itself.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

[lifeisstillgood]

Violence and war are unequal - the strong (and male) take from the weak the old the young and the nursing. Laws are a compact between the strong and the rest, that with defence from the strong we will get peace and sharing and status. Status is the coinage society bribes the strong to prevent them just taking all they want. At some point society manages to produce through peace and trade more than could be stolen and the deal becomes profitable for both sides.

And different guards guard each other. Balance of power etc