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Oh sure, how evil they were for protecting settlements from raiders
Lmao don’t be so fucking naive. The people can raise a militia by themselves. This is no foreign concept to humanity.
Yeah, the raiders used those tactics
…ok? So, you haven’t managed to prove a state is necessary to protect yourself. You haven’t even proved that “raiders” even exist outside of a Civilization game.
Do you want me to show you written accounts of prehistoric settlements? Well, worry not, that problem persisted well into the invention of writing, as there are mesopotamian accounts of either mountain or desert nomadic raiders
See? Much better when you actually make points instead of snide remarks :)
Now, have you proved states are necessary?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24562331