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by quadrangle 4636 days ago
It's as or more reasonable to say that governments evolved out of the need to mediate conflicts between people living in groups.
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This is also a more reasonable explanation for organized crime, seeing as how criminals cannot rely on the government to mediate criminal disputes.
Organized crime has its own internal governance, hence "organized". So that's no different.