In other words, he is the perfect warlord. Nothing matters besides his ability to use force, and he can use that force against anyone he chooses, for any reason he chooses.
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anyway, my point isn't to analyze a dystopian fiction. my point is that real people don't behave in the way you have suggested. if law enforcement is fundamentally about behavior control, it has to be tuned to the way people really behave, and that includes the enforcers.
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I'm literally proposing we stop trying to control behavior, and instead relegate the "Warlord archetype" to something more akin to a gym teacher than somebody with actual authority.
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In a tribal society, a chief leads his warriors by being the most charismatic member of the tribe, they all have the same spears he does. He simply convinces them to direct their aggression away from the village. There is no need for coercion or hierarchy. Just direction.
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Many. Like, I've literally lost count of how many times I've read an ethnographer explaing that the chief has to convince the other warriors to do anything because he doesn't actually have any authority over them outside of individual respect.
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Like people will try to ask for specifics but there are so many tribes that all end up repeating the same social dynamics of "Do whatever the fuck you want there's enough food for everyone so we only really fight over women and/or cows, and it's mostly just ritualized posturing."
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Hierarchical society is the result of agriculture dividing people into warriors and slaves. We just won't admit that anybody who isn't allowed to carry a weapon is obviously a slave.
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it's the 2nd amendment though. who's we?
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Again, that argument ignores a lot of the subtext of Judge Dredd and how it's more or less an anarchist critique on liberalism, often mistaken for Fascist fantasy by liberals who don't understand British anarchism.
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If Dredd is a warlord, then that's just a way of recognizing that all human societies are more or less just layers of warlord-ism. Because the only difference between him and a Judge in a democratic society, is that Dredd goes onto the streets to enforce the law himself.
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that's a very important difference! Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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The watchmen watch themselves because they'd get bored otherwise. They should only become watchmen if watching is something they consider fun.
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