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Maybe. I'm not actively disagreeing with you... i just have a sense that you're wrong. I'm perfectly agreeable to this discussion.

If it ever got to a point where an actual organized force

Organized force is the crux of the matter. How would they organize? There have been entire anti-cop rallies absolutely crushed by cops illegally detaining the leaders, and the rest scattering. They used soft measures, and so they were defeated.

The use of hard measures would necessitate communication, and i doubt anyone on reddit is willing to openly discuss such things. Maybe you're a cop. Maybe i'm a cop. Maybe literally anyone who can read this is a cop. How much surveillance do they have? I don't know. Do you? With the recent changes in reddit lately, maybe all our IPs are being logged and fast-forwarded to FBI douchebags, just in case.

The thing is, how do they organize? They can't. There's not enough trust to levy a legitimate organization against cops. A simple protest gets you arrested and put on a fucking watchlist.

I think it's safe to say we've gone well past the threshold of 'quality of life' holding people back.

Which people? The rich are perfectly content. I'd like you to expand on this because i'm not certain what you mean.

Loads of people already talk tons of shit about going out and doing stuff.

Loads of people talk about everything. While they may want this, they aren't willing to do it themselves. If they were, they'd be doing it. People value their own lives above the community, outside of military training.

Imagine if they were given actual incentive and the removal of consequence by having nothing to lose?

There will never be a removal of consequences. I cannot impress this upon you enough: taking a life is a horrendous act. The end. It will change you, and change you forever. I'm an atheist, so i consider it the worst possible action a person can take. The consequence will be on your guilt, on your soul, on the very knowledge that you ended someone. It doesn't matter how evil or wrong you believe them to be, you TOOK that from them. They now no longer exist because of your actions.

I don't think i could live with myself if i did such a thing. It's just too monstrous.

I think you're vastly over-estimating the power of things like surveillance, and hugely under-estimating just how easy it is for a government to fall apart when put under actual, real, physical pressure.

Nah. The pressure needs to be greater than the rebound pressure, and you'll not find that in the US. Too many complacent citizens and too many military bases filled with people who aren't allowed to take in information.

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