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13 Post author: PhilGoetz 07 April 2013 03:34PM

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Comment author: V_V 07 April 2013 09:14:45PM 3 points [-]

Even dictatorships have laws.

People tend to be generally happier and more productive in social environments where reasonably well defined and fairly enforced policies exist, even when these policies have been set unilaterally.
That's why states have written laws, and organizations have written statutes, guidelines, codes of conduct, etc.