The distinction between rules and rulership is not problematic to Gillis' philosophy. It's also a rather elementary one. It's okay if you're unfamiliar but it's also okay if he'd rather not tutor on this topic.
The modern state is probably unstable, which freaks people out that look at it, because the failure of the state usually does not portend paradise, but civil war.
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It is a game theoretic problem: if players get more food in the short run by armed robbery than by working the fields, then the fields will lie fallow. The solution is to increase the cost of armed robbery by protecting the farmers with a standing army or a nuke.
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The standing army is either formed once the armed robbers consolidate their spheres of influence and begin farming their famers, or once the farmers get together and pay for a militia and magistrates to fight off invaders. The result is pretty much the same.
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