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  • lugalto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneActual rule
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    1 hour ago

    They seem to depend on hierarchies but there are decision making processes that do not depend on hierarchies even tho they might resemble them on first glance. You can have a council that makes decisions on a consensual basis, sends revocable delegates to upper level councils. This might seem like representatives as in modern parliaments but the revocable part is important. If they can be called back at any point and the position is temporal from the start, this changes everything. Also decisions should be on the lowest possible level and everything must be voluntary.







  • lugaltomemes@lemmy.worldThey were probably thrilled to find work
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    3 hours ago

    Very light detail. Even wikipedia is more critical and names the slave patrols as origin of policing in the US. Your source outright equates law and police which is very problematic. You can have a law and sets of rules in an egalitarian society with a nightwatcher system or something and no armed police force. According to wikipedia:

    Up to the early 18th century, the level of state involvement in law enforcement in Britain was low. Although some law enforcement officials existed in the form of constables and watchmen, there was no organized police force.

    So police isn’t as common place as your source makes it seem.

    I haven’t read it yet but James Scott wrote a book about societies in southeast Asia without government who don’t “turn bloody quickly” whatever that might mean. Also Worshiping Power is a book I have read that’s topical enough.




  • lugaltomemes@lemmy.worldThey were probably thrilled to find work
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    7 hours ago

    Nearly every society has had some kind of police/army/guard to enforce laws.

    Big citation needed here. Many societies didn’t have a professional army but rather armed citizens who went to war when needed and had other occupations otherwise. See for example the second amendment which wanted a “well regulated Militia” instead of a professional army. Also this is different from a police force which isn’t universal either. Many watch each other or have rotating shifts or something which isn’t the same as a police that necessarily stands above the law to enforce it.



  • Hi, I’ve noticed you used the term “wave”. This is considered to be too vague and ambiguous by many people, especially victim organizations. Please use the term “Hitler salute” instead since it’s more precise. Also stop reporting me and other neighbors. This is for your best. It puts you on a watchlist, not us.