You keep specifying 'separate nation states' but that's not the point.
You're supposed to imagine a world with 'no countries', not 'no competing countries'. Zero is not equal to one. If you can't imagine a world where people didn't set up a country to enforce laws, or where people had to be forced not to own things by some authority, then you're not imagining the thing you're being asked to imagine.
I agree that it's implausible that humans as they exist today could live in that sort of society. They would wreck it in just the ways you said.
But the people who sang all the hippie songs really did hate the government *a lot* -- in particular, the government telling them what they could do. They're the left-wing version of libertarians.
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Date: 2010-12-14 12:22 am (UTC)You're supposed to imagine a world with 'no countries', not 'no competing countries'. Zero is not equal to one. If you can't imagine a world where people didn't set up a country to enforce laws, or where people had to be forced not to own things by some authority, then you're not imagining the thing you're being asked to imagine.
I agree that it's implausible that humans as they exist today could live in that sort of society. They would wreck it in just the ways you said.
But the people who sang all the hippie songs really did hate the government *a lot* -- in particular, the government telling them what they could do. They're the left-wing version of libertarians.