The foregoing discussion was about how much joy people take in crushing their enemies, driving them before them, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
Government power may well be founded on the theoretical possibility (and relatively rare reality) of coercive violence (I would suggest, naive special snowflake that I am, that actually the consent of the governed is just as important as the threat of coercive violence, but never mind that) but it doesn’t generally involve a great deal of joyful skullcrushing, and joy-in-skullcrushing on the part of the enforcers is generally regarded as a bug rather than a feature and isn’t, so far as I can see, actually required in practice.
The foregoing discussion was about how much joy people take in crushing their enemies, driving them before them, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
Government power may well be founded on the theoretical possibility (and relatively rare reality) of coercive violence (I would suggest, naive special snowflake that I am, that actually the consent of the governed is just as important as the threat of coercive violence, but never mind that) but it doesn’t generally involve a great deal of joyful skullcrushing, and joy-in-skullcrushing on the part of the enforcers is generally regarded as a bug rather than a feature and isn’t, so far as I can see, actually required in practice.