I'm not entirely sure why this is. Perhaps it's general wealth/comfort, or perhaps a history of, at best, amoral profit-seeking.
Or maybe I'm just seeing things. But in general my experience has been that the kinds of people that I would expect to be activists are much less so over here than in, say, Germany or France or Spain.
No, I've always been befuddled by how both the Dutch and Belgian have basically had their colonial reigns of terror handwaved away.
It's likely that neither nation really acknowledges it or has anyone agitating internally for the nation to own up to it. So like you said, they're rich and a bit amoral.
At least the Dutch stayed independant during the first world war, while entire generations were slaughtered on the battlefield from other nations. For what? Economic reasons.
No, we're meek activists for simpler reasons. Our population density is high, so we needed to build on a culture of tolerance and acceptance. We are constantly battling a common enemy: water from the seas and the rivers. This required understanding, cooperation and negotiation. We are a country with diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds, which also requires a certain level of cooperation instead of activism.
And yet, I think we are actually quite high on the political activism ladder, but not on the militant activism. Hurting our neighbours entails hurting ourselves, so we prefer talking over destroying.
Private military forces are going to become a lot more common.
Obviously there's trade-offs but it seems like having privately security instead of cops would be an end run around most of the things that are bad about modern policing.
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Look at companies like G4S in the UK or Blackwater (or whatever their new name is) for private security horror stories.
I'm sure other countries have even worse tales.
They run prisons, young offenders institutions and offer private security etc.
They are not known for good behaviour though.
They are known for cost-cutting, hiring people with questionable qualifications and experience, sexual assaults on minors and covering up evidence of their own incompetence and malice.
That's what I think of when people suggest privatising law enforcement and military. Greed, malice and power-mongering.
A genuine dystopia, because I don't have the same faith that you do that a profit motive will be anything other than destructive in these spheres.
> But I can sleep away from my neighbors
Then you're no longer their neighbor.