Changing the world

Originally Posted by Black Jade Rose

Killing people is not something natural to people.

The entirety of human history begs to differ.

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People will live in harmony without laws once they understand that braking laws even though they are not enforced make the world fall apart. People will obey laws because they make life better.

If people were good enough to obey laws that aren't enforced because they make life better, there wouldn't be a need for those laws at all. Which human history again says isn't the case.

The idea is contradicted by your poor starving guy stealing from the rich guy; even if laws weren't enforced, if the poor guy understood that breaking laws "made the world fall apart", he'd just starve because he knew that taking something that didn't belong to him was wrong.

But he's starving, doesn't have food, and this guy does. He needs it, and to him, his need to eat is more important than the idea of private property or respecting the law to keep society from imploding.

Jam it back in, in the dark.