The_Dunedan

Yes. Yes, yes, and yes.

Because no matter how bad some individuals are, individuals need rest. Individuals need food. Individuals need sex, relaxation, and some level of sustainance. Governments do not. Corporations (a subsidiary of Governments) likewise do not. There is a limit on how much damage an individual person or commercial concern can do: not least because they do not enjoy a legal monopoly on socially-legitimated initiation of force. There is no such limit on Governments or their Corporate proxies. When an abusive parent withholds water from a child, we arrest them and put them in prison. When a nation-state withholds water from a targeted population, they get seats at the UN, sometimes a mild talking-to, and sometimes even a governing seat on the Council which overseas their violations. To paraphrase Mr. Stalin; one death from dehydration is a tragedy, ten thousand such deaths are population control.

An individual person or group of individuals must negotiate. They must reach an agreements beneficial to both parties, or else neither party gets what they want. Governments simply take what they want, eliminate or bulldoze those in their way, and leave the mess for the rest of us to clean up afterwards.