Hmmm: Egalitarian societies which cannot defend themselves get overwhelmed by hierarchical societies which are better at violence. ... Any ideological system that doesn’t produce people willing to die and kill for it, will lose to an ideology that does. The question is not whether violence is permitted, the question is when it is permitted. Most of us want to live in a peaceful society, I certainly do. But that peace is always and everywhere undergirded by rules about when to commit violence, a willingness to do so and an ability do it well. Societies and ideologies that do not do violence well exist at the sufferance of those who do, and live under the conditions and in the places that those good at violence permit. Generally very bad conditions.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:52:28 +0000
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