On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Noel Maersk <veox@???> wrote:
> Only thing perhaps is a recent talk with a few friends on the nature of
> authority, their argument being that power hierarchies is what made
> humanity safer.

This sentiment resonates with Steven Pinker's talk on "The surprising
decline of violence".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk

> It makes me feel sad - I think now they were talking not about "people
> in general", but themselves, perhaps unknowingly, perhaps in a detached
> fashion.

You're engaging in us-vs-them thinking here.