Yes, this experiment was run many times as communism. People's intuitions about what's "bad" and "unfair" are an exceptionally poor way of organising society; personal morality just doesn't scale.
Recognizing that collectively you have more power than your enemies, and sticking to your positions even if it's scary, is an actual thing that can ever work, and history is full of examples.
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yeah but you need a coordination mechanism. Otherwise game-theoretically it's the free rider problem i.e. many person prisoner's dilemma and the Nash Equilibrium is everyone defects. Militaries need discipline and in historical battles most casualties were after one side broke.
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Yep! True!
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