welll, no, i'm usually the toughest one in any gathering....
yes, there is a difference between peace and imposed order....peace is a dream, that doesn't exist. people are animals. i don't mean that in a philosophical sense, i mean it in a biological one. there is a drive to violence in people, a drive to reproduce, to dominate weaker people....it's the animal part of our natures. we all have it, whether we like to admit it or not. most of us have succeeded in controlling it well enough to get along with neighbors, and not beat someone who pisses us off to death with an antelope thigh bone....most of the time.
people are purely, deeply, flawed, and can not "get along with each other" all the time....and that is why you need a "coercive central authority"....to keep that nature in control, because most people don't seem to be able to do it for themselves