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HappyHouse's avatar

I am staggered by your capacity to ingest all this information and produce a clear summary of a very complex range of subjects. This one post is very important and I hope will be picked up by many who find these topics very difficult to approach, such as myself. Thank you.

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Rightful Freedom's avatar

'''What is the purpose of a Nation State?' Well, one of its primary functions, surely, is to protect its citizens from outside forces, outside threats."

The most common such "outside threat" by far is the threat of attack by other nations. So, considered as a whole, the biggest threat to the subjects of all Nation States is the governments of Nation States. Right?

So the biggest threat to humanity, the biggest threat from which we could and should be protected, is governments. I think that a glance at history, and in particular at wars, proves the point.

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