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by jason-phillips 1350 days ago
> Governments are basically the mob...

Governments are institutions. Considering the anarchic alternative, what we currently have is preferable. People as a group, the actual mob, cannot be trusted. They are irrational and are therefore potentially dangerous.

The trick is to safeguard against institutional rot.

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> Governments are institutions.

So's the mob. It's why they call it "organized" crime.