Violence [Content Warning - discussion on various types of violence]

(Note: I will exclude violence between nations in this post.)

The state is typically considered the main source of coercive force - which basically means people can be compelled to obey laws, including laws against various forms of violence. This requires an enforcement/legal system as well. 

If the laws are reasonable, and the imposition of compulsion (“coercion”) is not “”arbitrary” (meaning it is free of bigotry, bias, abuse/misuse/failure to use power, etc), this has the potential to be of benefit to people in a society. 

The problem with this is when the application of coercive power does not comply with expectations to be reasonable (not arbitrary), measured/proportionate, and free of bias. 

Unfortunately, elites have, in my opinion (IMO), distorted this system to support their perversions of society into a nightmare where being landed and/or rich is somehow enough to cause you to have favoured treatment. 

People with lots of stuff - however ill-gotten it may be - don’t like the thought that those without might scratch their paint ... or bring their alleged smell into the rich people’s air space. (Yes, sarcasm.)

This has all been shown in some news reports of late:

• the US Governor of Texas is, IMO, morally responsible for the death of a refugee child. The comment about help was arranged when the child came forward is inane - people are being deliberately cowed by authority in these sorts of situations, and thus will not come forward until the situation is desperate, and probably too late. See  https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-bus-death-chicago-illinois-172def5894d16d225d82ca92129c3f34;
  
• supporters of despot djt have attempted to intimidate juries. IMO their intention is to threaten one that had the integrity and courage to produce a result they didn’t like to attempt to bully future juries into cowering before djt’s demands. See https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/names-addresses-grand-jurors-georgia-trump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239;
  
• other coercive agents (police) may be unfit for duty on the basis of being biased as a result of being bigots. However, they have been charged, which means the vitally important principle of innocent until proven guilty applies. See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/17/california-fbi-arrest-police-officers-racist-texts-antioch-pittsburg-san-francisco;
  
• and there is the utterly appalling example that led to my decision to write this article - and I note many others share in the outrage, and officer has been placed on restricted duties. See https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/18/aboriginal-18-year-old-with-disability-thrown-to-ground-during-nsw-police-arrest-while-having-seizure;
  
• that previous media report shows the sort of misconduct that is obviously unprofessional, but something I have been writing about for some time is that agents of the state such as police can also be traumatised by violence - which can have a role in their violence - such as the police members who was a violent domestic abuser, as reported at https://www.vpsreports.com/post/fontana-pd-fatally-shoot-armed-l-a-sheriff-s-deputy-accused-of-domestic-violence.
  

Some reports on violence may also involves those outside the state systems:

• Canada has declared a female genocide: see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/16/canada-criminalize-coercive-control-gender-violence;
  

Other violence is not directly by the state, but is allowed by state inaction:

• haters trying to get LGBTIQA+ kids to commit suicide https://www.vpsreports.com/post/leave-our-kids-alone-supporters-tell-lgbtq-youth-to-hang-themselves.
  

 All of these abuses have to be countered by intelligent, adaptive, forceful, unrelentingly persistent, long term activism.

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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