Re: Somalia
Hobbes' War does NOT equate to actual predation.
"For war consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known... In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain."
It doesn't matter wether war is pareto inferior to peace which Borodog usually points to (of course without using the correct economic term) as long as there's no institution to get past the prisoners dilemma that is Hobbes' state of nature. It's game theory 101.
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