[engineer_22]

Social unrest is not usually a hallmark of a functioning society.

[GJim]

Social unrest is how equality and functional societies were obtained.

[bluGill]

A society needs to allow that unrest first. Both directly allow it, but also the type of thinking that would cause it.

[engineer_22]

Touché

But your argument implies society was dysfunctional, and unrest made it functional.

I don't think we are actually disagreeing here

[throwaway27448]

Alright so let's obtain that society