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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Do you think people stay in prison by gentle persuasion? No. They're kept there by threat of violent force.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

So you think literally all laws are violence? Not even laws... just any form of authority?

Damn, I knew lemmy was a fantasy land but y'all are way further gone than I ever even pretended to imagine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Give an example of an authority that does not derive its power from the threat of violence.

[–] Coldcell 1 points 1 day ago

Laws are simply the promise of violence by the dominant socio-economic class, you guys wanna make some bacon?

(With apologies to Brennan Lee Mulligan)