• Golden Lox@lemmy.world
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    politics is violent, inherently. taxation is violent, inherently. policing is violent, inherently. control of another is violent, inherently.

    the state is, by definition, a monopoly on violence. dont pretend you are above inflicting pain on others.

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      You just said it yourself. In a civilized order it’s the state that monopolizes violence. You don’t get to invent the laws and prosecute them yourself. Personally I don’t want to live in a society of vigilantism or civil war. Bluster aside, I suspect that you don’t either.