It gave me an emotional intuition for what more progress along the “distance from violence” scale might look like. If we don’t even have to pull the trigger anymore and can be assured no unintended casualties, maybe it’s more pressure towards the equilibrium of the state relying on violence to govern, and then to suppress the dissent that violence generates with more violence.
It gave me an emotional intuition for what more progress along the “distance from violence” scale might look like. If we don’t even have to pull the trigger anymore and can be assured no unintended casualties, maybe it’s more pressure towards the equilibrium of the state relying on violence to govern, and then to suppress the dissent that violence generates with more violence.