Talcosis

Alternatively, there can be the simple recognition that breaking the system that exists will result in a mass casualty event as current systems keeping the masses alive break down, and the resulting collapse will be capitalized on (lol) by your local warlord.

I’m sure the local warlord will be a great bastion of anti authoritarian praxis.

I invent the stuff we make stuff out of.

It would be nice if self defense often meant an abused person ending their abuser, but what it usually looks like is shooting minorities.

I feel like a billionaire pedophile can afford to buy a fall guy to take the death penalty for them.

The problem with “self-defense” is that it is often a “pre-emptive self-defense”, which is indistinguishable from aggression. Especially when it becomes a question of personal self defense using lethal weapons.

Authoritarian psychology. Roughly 30% of any given population would much prefer to live in a society of strict hierarchies, rules, and consequences where everyone knows their place.

See: the entire career of Bob Altemeyer. Specifically I recommend “The Authoritarians” it’s a free PDF on his website.

Nah. Not really. Time zones don’t follow state boundaries because they generally follow natural population boundaries.