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Originally Posted by WTF
I'm not the ignoramus that thinks societies were formed for "the sanctity of life. which is the basic reason societies are formed".
You actually think that?
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of course
don't you?
the earliest grouped for protection
protection of what? their lives
why are governments formed? to give you other peoples money?
the most basic reason is life
"to secure these rights governments are instituted among men"
as james madison explained in federalist no. 51, in the state of nature, "the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger."