No rights under communism

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Fri Apr 5 14:11:54 PST 2002


C. Brown writes:
> "The evidence is that pre-law/pre-state societies had much less crisis
> with solving disputes than state/law societies. Conflict and failure to
> resolve it has been on an upward historical curve correlated with the rise
> of states and their laws."

dlawbailey:
> Nonsense. Why did native Americans have a warrior class? Why did they
> produce tomahawks, war clubs and arrowheads for war? Why do Yanomami men
> sport big scars from clubbing each other on the head? Why do they speak of
> raiding parties, battles over territory, and accusations of withcraft
> against rival clans?
> ...

Possibly they enjoy(ed) these activities for their own sakes. They are impractical for merely settling disputes.

-- Gordon



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