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quadrangle
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It's as or more reasonable to say that governments evolved out of the need to mediate conflicts between people living in groups.
manicbovine
on Oct 4, 2013
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This is also a more reasonable explanation for organized crime, seeing as how criminals cannot rely on the government to mediate criminal disputes.
quadrangle
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Organized crime has its own internal governance, hence "organized". So that's no different.
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