Dr.Traveler
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This deserves it's own post to address. Your comment there fails on so many levels. From the earliest periods of history folks have organized as groups specifically for trade, common defense, and to provide for common welfare. Civilizations that fail in those functions inevitably fail. It just may take a while.No, that's actually not why we form governments. The state is a means for a predatory class to plunder a serf class and harvest their production. Government has always been based on plunder and exploitation.
What you're speaking of is greed, which is an inevitable part of human nature. It happens with or without government. It predates government. Capitalism, the US Constitutional form of government, etc, are all attempts to steer that impulse for greed away from destructive ends to positive ends. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
In short, don't blame the need to plunder or steal from others on Government, or Religion, or Society. Blame if on people.