12-05-2011, 06:32 PM
(12-05-2011, 04:03 PM)kandrathe Wrote: You are seeing the motes in what would be a much larger problem if law were absent. Without the rule of law, you'd have the rule of force. You'd have Somalia.
The rule of law *is* the rule of force. The only questions are, whose force? And organized how? Mancur Olson has some interesting things to say on that question.
-Jester