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So how is your idea of civilization different than the jungle? Might makes right. There is no idea of justice or society watching out for those in positions of weakness or vulnerability. There is complete natural freedom: for the strong to eat the weak for lunch, with no one to interfere. Survival of the fittest.
So that's what you think civilization and law, order, and justice are all about?
What you don't understand is that might *always* makes right. The difference between civilization and barbarism is that, in the former, might is concentrated in a single entity (i.e. the state). This entity can then resolve disputes between its subjects, without regard for their individual power.
What we are seeing now is a reversion to barbarism, in which the physical power of individuals is allowed to determine who gets what. The only way to remedy this is for one entity (again, the state) to bring overwhelming force to bear against the mobs.