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You actually have a much higher opinion of human nature than I do. If governments are killing 100 million a century now, I think individuals would kill 200 million a century if there was no government. \:\)


Individuals kill by ones and twos. Governments kill by the millions. Not even close. And when you let governments do the killing they get to call it legal and the murderers get to be called president or congress critter.


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I don't know where the optimum lies - though I have the feeling that we're reasonably close to it.


We are reasonably close to a totalitarian system. Security can only come from being a slave.