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Take any High School auditorium:
Fill it with 100 people.
1 despot
99 political philosophers,
Each having their own individual ideal
The one despot takes the weakest, youngest, most beautiful individual and begins employing despotism upon that individual. The despot utilizes all known despotic practices; rape and torture being the most heinous. The despot makes up a few new routines above and beyond the default routine.
The pacifists gather and consult their collection of knowledge.
The anarchists do the same.
Meanwhile, perhaps days later, the despot move on as his current ‘property’ expires.
Now there are 97 philosophers, one despot, and one subject.
The ‘commerce’ continues.
The commerce is not equitable.
The commerce is based upon the value principle. The despot values life more than the subject, in an odd sort of way, a selfish greedy measure of value that is unsustainable. In time there are 96 subjects and one despot. The remaining subjects are progressively less valuable. They are busy trying to find a common principle by which they can address the present and obvious concern.
When the ‘leader of the free world’, your ‘president’, goes “Nukular” the results will be similar to my ‘thought experiment’ above and that ‘thought experiment’ is currently happening all around the globe. Get in line or get as far back in the line as you can. Whatever you do, by all means, don’t entertain any possible notion that just maybe you may have missed something important that has already been discovered in history.