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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:50:10 -0000 (UTC)
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On 19 Oct 2024 18:52:46 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 05:26:18 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On 19 Oct 2024 03:15:19 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:16:40 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:30:33 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> All government is a self-legalising protection racket.
>>>> 
>>>> Would you rather live a life that is, what was the phrase, “nasty,
>>>> brutish and short”?
>>> 
>>> Hobbes ignored centuries of societies that did quite well without a
>>> dictatorial sovereign in charge.
>> 
>> Such as?
> 
> Read Tacitus for example.

Fictional/hypothetical society, or real society?