One of the weirdest things that I constantly encounter is the idea that, if we get rid of governments (aka organized murder, theft, and rape machines), then people would be stealing even more than they are now, and everybody would be driving drunk and a hundred miles an hour over the speed limit.
That's an odd assumption being that the hubs of theft and violence are in places with generally authoritarian policies.
I don't know what would happen. Realistically, people would likely respond differently.
But, my assumption is that that Walgreens in California that's being hit by shoplifters thirteen times a day -- and that's probably a low number being that CNN was in the store for thirty minutes and recorded three thefts -- wouldn't be so juicy a target if we abolished the organized murder, theft, and rape machines.
Ya see, the assholes who are stealing, and hurting their communities, are now being protected by the organized murder, theft, and rape machines. Ya know who's in danger of being a target of the organized murder, theft, and rape machines?
Anybody who tries to defend his or her business in any way -- especially with a gun -- even if entirely justified.
That's why we're having these high profile cases of good people just trying to identify thieves taking a ton of expensive stuff from their places of work being fired. The organized murder, theft, and rape machines make it more risky to record the vehicle of the thieves than it is to actuality commit the theft.
If we got rid of these murder, theft, and rape machines, maybe people would be more aggressive in safeguarding their own lives and livelihoods.
A large calibre bullet delivered by a morally sound person stops murder, theft, and rape in an instant. It's just the organized murder, theft, and rape machines that would make that good, innocent person so scared to pull the trigger that he or she might take the murder, or the theft, or the rape.