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Baraka: I would never suggest that there are no other benefits to society, but I would suggest that most, if not all, of the other benefits are possible because there is not the constant struggle for the most base neccessities against the stronger. Both of the examples you cite are motivated, indirectly, by the threat(and therefore the employment) of force.
Filtherton: I was saying that the ability for you to go to school is because our society puts a buffer betwixt you and the "state of nature". There is no different state for humans, it is what it is.
If it were not for the "societal buffer", we would not be typing this, because someone stronger than you would have come and taken your stuff, or you would be out taking someone elses, as a means to survive and prosper. We (most of us) have overcome this, to a point. It is a good thing. I would not enjoy living a nasty, brutish, and short life.
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