Benewing on Nostr: ‘Governments are the greatest source of war, violence etc’. The problem with this ...

‘Governments are the greatest source of war, violence etc’. The problem with this is you’re not comparing it to the alternative. You assume that if we take governments away the wars will go too. Yet countries with weak governments like Mexico or with rebels like in the Mid east or Africa actually have the highest per capita murder rates of anywhere. And countries with the highest levels of government intervention like Scandinavia or East Asia have the lowest.

And this century has been far safer so far than the first 25 years of the 20th century. So far approx 1 million people have died in wars this century vs 15 million in ww1. Not considering far lower crime and murder rates globally either…