Who the fuck tought giving the state a monopoly of violence was a good idea?
1mon 10d ago by lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/A404 in anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The state.
Nobody gave it, it was taken. It only justified itself as "the final arbiter" in a post hoc manner, not a logical one
Thomas Hobbes, maybe?
It was just the result of achieving the monopoly.
ask the Mafia similarly...
the state did is your answer
They are not all that different. One sells drugs the other sells weapons.