If you could magically stop all human-on-human violence, or stop senescence (aging) for all humans, which would it be?
All governments rely on an implicit or explicit threat of force, of "human-on-human violence".
If no one can apply violence to me why should I pay any taxes, or, more crudely, pay for that apple I just grabbed off a street stall?
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