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If you're going to take the "might is right" standpoint then society with it's huge police and military force always wins.

I don't even understand why you need to ask these questions. In the past countries routinely ignored other countries' laws by going to war. Even nowadays China is extraditing Chinese Americans who break Chinese laws even if what they did is completely legal in the US.

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Which is always the case, whoever can physically or persuasively force other to comply always win.

I ask because the one I asked seems to believe break ins and theft is anything but collective myths existing only because the individuals in our society believe in them. Outside of society, where nature and war takes place, none of those things exist, and since the hermit was not part of society, it’s not break ins and theft, it’s survival. The only thing not allowing things out there is ethics and morals, if one is capable of such, and that, understandably, seems to crumble when standing in the way of survival.

He didn’t really leave society though because his livelihood was entirely dependent on it, without contributing back.

He just pitched a tent and didn’t talk to anyone for 27 years. He really just claimed his own campground for a long time.

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