Would humans be violent without a government?

Question

Imagine for a second, humans have never been ruled, or even known what it was like to be ruled. What would it be like?
O all the anarchy we currently have is a result of being ruled. Of course anarchys would be violent, they are the results of being ruled. No acutal result of humans not being ruled has ever been seen.

Answer 1

we are the naked apes who rose to the top of the food chain by being more aggressive than any other species and indiscrimatory about who or what we killed, or still kill
aggression is hard wired into our species, government or no government
take away mankind's modern weapons and he will sharpen sticks and pick out good throwing rocks to kill with

Answer 2

thanx for ur great question. well humans are social animal. and its the law of the nature that, any social living beings will be ruled by a dominant power, even if you don't want it. there will always be someone smarter than you to take over the power. we humans like power and domination. and it doesn't wait mentioning that humans will be violent without a ruling power. this is becoz what is right for me is not for you. so what a government does is, it sets some standards which is neither good nor bad for both of us. or which is best for the entire society. i can tell you for sure that, if we ever have any society without a ruler than all we will have is chaos. do you think you will stop at the red light or drive your Mustang in any less than 150k/H if you didn't have the police on the road. to find the proof of the nature's law just look towards any other primate soceity. and if u want my personal opinion, than i want a ruler like V. Lenin.

Answer 3

Of course there was a time when humans were not ruled - don't be silly. And yet rulers not only took power, they were often genuinely revered. If you think otherwise, you know little about history.

Thomas Hobbes (17th C) thought that human life in a 'state of nature' would be 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. He argued that a powerful government was needed to prevent a 'war of all against all'.

John Locke, (18th C) on the other hand, had a more positive view of human nature. It was his political theory that the U.S. constitution was based upon. He argued that the people have the right to overthrow their rulers, by force of arms if necessary, if their rulers fail to protect them in their pursuit of the good life.

But who honestly thinks people could live in peace without some form of government? Even Locke saw that as a naive view of human nature. He argued that three independent sectors of government were needed - a legislature to make laws, a judiciary to implement the laws, and an exectutive to have the ultimate power to back up the law.

There was a time when anarchism worked - way back when people were few and far between. Freedom decreases with the increase of population.

Answer 4

I don't think there will ever be a time where someone doesn't rule. When you remove one party from the equation you find there is always another to take its place. Ruling bodies do not create a non-violent world. It is up to every single individual to become a ruler of their own violent tendencies and while we each look outside our selves for answers and appropriate environments for such growth, we ourselves are ensuring that other people(gov & the like) continue to lead us on paths that lead to distruction.

I agree that there is no actual time in history that the human race has not had a leader. Humans are social creatures & in all social enviroments there is underlying laws set initially by the laws of nature the strong will prey on the weak.

Answer 5

Ideally, government, aka the state, is designed to remove the violence from the individual and transfer it to state power. So instead of personal vendettas, we have a criminal law system. Instead of militias we have a state-controlled army.
What goes wrong with this system is that the personal still over-rides the bureaucratic (yes, I am a champion of bureaucracy), and the politics of charisma dominating over the politics of reason.

Answer 6

even with the existence of Government also people get violent, human is a human, always react when its agaiinst their will, or they disagree with the ruling. perhaps the government has to be more sensitive on the people's issue to minimise violent.

Answer 7

Wrong. Even caveman have signs of violence such as an arrowhead being found in a frozen mummy.

Answer 8

No humans wudnt be violant n the cause of wars n stuff are GOVERNMENTS ONLY as i believe as they ruine everrything on thsi earth!

Answer 9

Man killed man long before he tried to rule him.

Answer 10

The survivors of Katrina didn't take long to shed their civilization.