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Also, which steals more of your stuff, on average? This Washington Post article's title offers a clue: "Cops took more stuff from people than burglars did last year."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

The article is from 2015, but nothing's been done to reverse the trend. I wonder what they've gotten the ratio up to in the last eight years.

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Its almost tautological and by definition that your local government has legally granted power (might even say monopoly practically speaking) for violence and kidnapping over you. A distant foreign government has to expend great resources to do the same for you which your government would do with a stroke of the pen. Sometimes even without that thin veneer.

> tautological and by definition

That's redundant and repetitive.

If you want to be incredibly pedantic, something can be tautological without being part of the definition, and something can be part of the definition without being tautological (by way of contradiction).

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