Originally Posted by
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because violence is not just physical, if you can destroy a country just by sending it bankrupt, that's no much different than killing its people. it's kind of more unsettling because we're continuously told we're nothing without money, while at least, once, we would have been nothing without our own lives, which seems a more reasoned start. wars still exist more than ever, but maybe you don't know of them? a good deal of the wars world wide have our contribution, the fact that we chose not to make them on our territory doesn't mean they're not there... our money make them, and we in our safety spot are now most sensitive to these kinds of economic "wars".
let's not compare antiquity to today so shallowly please, there was a totally different world once, it's not fair to draw such hasty comparisons.
because a bad government favors the state and who controls it, a good one favors the citizens and their human rights. democracy should obviously grant the second one, but it's as utopic as saying "anarchy".