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Just look at places with total lawlessness and lack of rule of law. That is not a preferable starting point for any project or endeavor you might conceivably participate in.

Yes, but the alternative to a huge number of laws is not necessarily total lawlessness and lack of rule of law.

And in fact, laws are not even the only way of regulating activities - the are plenty of other ways of setting and enforcing rules. See the work of Elinor Ostrom, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics†, on the the community-based governance of the commons.

† not a "real" Nobel prize, I know



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