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You are confused. Being in groups doesn't justify states at all. The state is not a group, it is a gang, whose mission is to enslave you.
It is perfectly possible to live in tribes, towns, even regions and continents, without the rule of a mafia gang. It happened in the past with no problem whatsoever. For example, the native Americans, the Spanish before the Roman empire, the vikings, most of Africa just some hundred years ago, etc, etc.
Abusing and imposing over others is in our DNA because we have an ego, but natural law and the NAP is also in our DNA. It only depends on what side you choose.
And it is possible to go a transition: people remove more and more power from the states until it has none. But it probably requires a massive socialist apocalypse, which will happen.
The state is not a group?
Really
You are confused.
Yes people can live in small groups where they are not accessible to larger more organised and weaponised groups- but once they come in contact, brother- its all on and you do not want to be in the smaller group.
The contest for resources goes back to the emergence of life- pre-sentient microbial life.
Today humans in nation state groups are organised in a hierarchy that allocates the resources depending upon a mix of trade, leverage and threat of force.
Agree there is a degree of choice within how we act and respond to the natural competitive nature of life. But there is also a limit to it and when you cannot even recognise nation states as the primary organised grouping its hard to know where to go from there.
IMO people in 'the west' who have enjoyed being on the winning side of imperialism mostly for centuries lack sufficient appreciation for this reality.
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I rectify: the state is a group of gangsters. Not a good group, because you cannot choose to be in it or not, and, as you say, it is organized in a hierarchy of force.
The NAP and the natural moral law doesn't go against groups, only against groups that use coercion and violence. Under this, you can participate of any group that you like and you are accepted, which is very contrary to what states do: impose and destroy your choice, enslaving you.
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