Fair point, but even if there was a community with some sort of decent culture, if they have already been disarmed what can they do? There's really no deterrant at all. Sufficiently trained/brainwashed police or soldiers have little to fear. Look at Hong Kong. The resistance there was kind of impressive & admirable, but completely futile. How many of those people were just "disappeared"? Hong Kong is now just part of China
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If people are unified in their disagreement of the regime, whether violent, not non-violent, rulers topple. The governed are largely giving consent. I think that’s the main factor in regimes getting away with evil. In a study of violent vs non-violent movements, they found that non-violent ones were surprisingly effective.