Curtiss Leung wrote:
>Come on--what is a government but that which exercises
>power over a state? What would be the role of a government
>in a stateless society? If it were to simply coordinate
>the operations of the various public institutions *without*
>having authority over them, could you properly call it a
>government?
>
>Curtiss
>
>> "State" and "Government" are not the same. The government
>> and other public institutions would handle an earthquake
>> in a hypothetical stateless society just as they would
>> today. Replacing the army and the police with an armed
>> citizenry would be on the road to a stateless society.
>
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