The thing about humans is that throughout our entire existence, we've developed everything in our society, technology and everyday lives to make things easier for ourselves.

Like I've argued at extent with anarchists, people who believe that the world would serve better without governments and rules/regulations and that people would work together for the common good.

My analogy is simple:

Someone rapes and kills a girl. This person must be found and held accountable. There is no government, no police, no taxes and no prisons.

The man flees town. A group of people from the community agree to track him down. As the community is self sufficient, these people have jobs. In not being able to feed their families when they are gone, they need some form of income. So all of the people pitch in a little bit of money so that these people can go off and provide this service and their families can be looked after. They finally get the guy after a long journey. There is unrest over simply killing the man, so they decide to keep him secured until they can decide a fitting punishment. Instead of deciding themselves, they ask the opinion of the people in the community, getting them to vote. None of them are comfortable with physical harm, so they decide to keep the man secured and limit his freedoms as punishment. The people who chased after the man realize this may happen again, and they feel that they should be better prepared for next time. As a community, they decide that these people will undergo training and be provided with the appropriate equipment, resources and provisions to do this service.

Boom, you've just created taxes, a legal system, a prison system and a police force. The more of these things you add in, the more people will want a select group to be in charge to offload the stress to the regular members of the community. Done, government.

Countries, governments, it all exists because of two things; humans want to make life easy for themselves, and humans are greedy.

The thing about humans is that throughout our entire existence, we've developed everything in our society, technology and everyday lives to make things easier for ourselves.

Like I've argued at extent with anarchists, people who believe that the world would serve better without governments and rules/regulations and that people would work together for the common good.

My analogy is simple:

Someone rapes and kills a girl. This person must be found and held accountable. There is no government, no police, no taxes and no prisons.

The man flees town. A group of people from the community agree to track him down. As the community is self sufficient, these people have jobs. In not being able to feed their families when they are gone, they need some form of income. So all of the people pitch in a little bit of money so that these people can go off and provide this service and their families can be looked after. They finally get the guy after a long journey. There is unrest over simply killing the man, so they decide to keep him secured until they can decide a fitting punishment. Instead of deciding themselves, they ask the opinion of the people in the community, getting them to vote. None of them are comfortable with physical harm, so they decide to keep the man secured and limit his freedoms as punishment. The people who chased after the man realize this may happen again, and they feel that they should be better prepared for next time. As a community, they decide that these people will undergo training and be provided with the appropriate equipment, resources and provisions to do this service.

Boom, you've just created taxes, a legal system, a prison system and a police force. The more of these things you add in, the more people will want a select group to be in charge to offload the stress to the regular members of the community. Done, government.

Countries, governments, it all exists because of two things; humans want to make life easy for themselves, and humans are greedy.