It also doesn’t tell us whether people who grew up relying on police would be able to adapt to a police-free society.
Do people who want to get rid of the police even care about that? Isn’t the whole implied idea that if you can’t survive without police, you don’t deserve to survive at all?
Let’s not forget the other side of the coin: can the chain hold you again—and, this time, forever? Unless you’ve managed to become immortal, that is.