kevin_strom on Nostr: When the people of a society are culturally and biologically 90+% similar, as ...

When the people of a society are culturally and biologically 90+% similar, as Americans were in my youth, their values and moral behavior are also very similar, so they trust each other not to bring bombs into airliners or concerts, or put poison into children's Halloween candy or juice bottles at the grocery store -- and that trust is amply justified. In such a society, tyranny isn't at all necessary to preserve order and peace, because order and peace are largely spontaneous.