If civil regulations are being enforced by SWAT teams, as they occasionally are, problem is enforcement, not sinful nature of regulation.
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Belief in the simmering latent violence of the regulatory state is a parochial American superstition belied by mountains of evidence abroad.
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That law is fundamentally built upon violence is a non-controversional point, I think. See R Cover on this: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3687&context=fss_papers …
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Fact that you don't see much state violence in states w/ robust reg regimes is attributable to strength of institutions and norms.
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Yes–but those institutions and norms are thoroughly interwoven with laws.
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That's the point though right? Institutions mitigate violence of law by constraining state and providing alt enforcement mechanisms
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That dynamic is definitely there, but also true that laws mitigate the violence of institutions, economy, many social norms.
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Agreed, but law constrains non-state violence through its own threat of violence.
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um, they just go do their murdering in the middle east?
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