EVE General Discussion

The cake is a lie, and it needs to be nerfed. Cake is way OP.

Somebody has an unhealthy fascination with sheep...

It kinda is to employers.

The monoploy on violence is indeed how all governments hold power but that doesn't make it legitimate.
From the arab spring to the american supression for the 99%'ers to bloody sunday to endless examples. The monopoly on violence and the way it interacts with "power tends to corrupt" is why a ruling elite is always undesirable and why direct democracy aka anarchy (from the greek meaning without leaders) is the only solution.

Actually, anarchy and democracy were two quite different concepts in Hellas. What they called "democracia", literally meaning "Rule of the People" was when the polis population (actually the men above 20) gathered on the market square, and didn't disperse until a solution that catered to everyone's interests was achieved, or at the very least, until nobody had counter-arguments. In Politeia, Plato draws up opposites, such as aristocracy (Rule of the Elite) and oligarchy (Rule of the Privileged). Here, democracy has the curious property of being its own opposite, in that democracy can also mean the tyranny of the majority over the minority, something that was unthinkable in a Hellenic democracy, but is the basis of the representative democracy practiced today.

As for the question of legitimate violence, that concept dates all the way back to Hobbes. He postulated that humans, left to their own devices, are incapable of forming stable groups and eventually, societies, due to selfishness. This means that everyone tries to maximize their own interests, regardless of others', leading to what he termed homo homini lupus est, meaning "Man is man's wolf [predator]". Since humans are also intelligent, they realize this, and form the social contract, partially relinquishing their right to protect their own interests, and creating an entity above themselves to protect each individual's interests in the interest of the entire group. To function, this entity (be it the king, the parliament, or the Alliance CEO) places restrictions on the use of violence, declaring that it alone can have the power to employ violence against any member of the group (or even outsiders), and whoever breaks this rule will be punished accordingly. Thus, in a bit of a tautology, the monopoly on violence makes this monopoly legitimate in itself.
I've followed the events of the Arab Spring closely (out of professional and academic interest as well). In each case, violence erupted only after peaceful protests were dispersed by force, admittedly after breaches of local laws (usually by not notifying the authorities before, infringing on private property, or similar). On the Arabian Peninsula, in Yemen (if memory serves me right), an agreement was reached with the king, the he will stay in power, but no successor will be appointed after his death/abdication; in this way, the protests ended peacefully. Similarly, the 99%-ers encountered forceful response after breaching laws regarding public assembly, usually by obstructing traffic or infringing on property. In the Occupiers case, the response was proportionate to the infringements and the resistance, meaning little or no actual violence was used, except in cases where protesters violently resisted removal or arrest themselves - discounting the University of California Davis incident, which became widely known as the ""Casually pepper spray everything" cop", who, to the best of my knowledge, has since gained his just reward, being dismissed from service dishonorably.

As an after thought perhaps they could make it so that highsec territory is defined by Faction warfare territorial gains.

So that if you have standings with Amarr, for instance, then any Amarr militia held systems will be highsec for you but only for Amarr citizens.

that's the rub
all of null sec has never been under the control of one entity
if that happened, AND they could hold it together ( and face it, the current largest group goonswarm forms at first just to wreck that sort of thing, its why Im surprised they are actually holding turf now)
then maybe they could take on a empire