Canings may be less civilized than no canings. Are canings less civilized than the stochastic crime that an absence of swift and painful punishment enables? Is Singapore less civilized than the United States? Does it look less civilized by any metric?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay …
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This formulation still leaves room for the concept of "cruelty." Cruelty is simply force beyond what is necessary to curb the problem. It has nothing to do with romanticism about the dignity of man. Man's dignity is also offended when he is the victim of random street violence.
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Because the state's enforcers cannot be everywhere at once, the state may choose to let citizens defend themselves. When the state neither enforces the law nor allows private citizens to defend themselves, that is anarcho-tyranny. The monopoly on violence belongs to the criminal.
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In such a system, we must conclude that it is the criminals themselves who enforce the will of the state. If the monopoly on violence belongs to the criminal, the criminal is the state.
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Crime is not a difficult problem. It is one of the first problems any state solves by definition, and one which pre-modern societies managed more effectively that we do now. The problem is a state which refuses to take accountability for its own power.https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3167#comment-1732286 …
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The crown lies heavy. As it should. But the modern regime has no crown, and therefore nowhere to place responsibility. The violence of lawlessness is more obscure than the violence of the state. The Cathedral prefers to obscure state power. The Cathedral prefers crime.
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Mohammed Anwar's death wasn't random. It was the consequence of a state that refused to do its job.https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-anwars-find-peace …
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It was the consequence of a state that outsourced the job of terrorizing upstanding citizens to a savage underclass that it has bred and trained for that exact role. Far from not doing their job, the job they've been doing was done to a T.
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For what purpose?
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Many; here's one Since progs are often so sexually undesirable b/c of lack of vitality they're happy to have a feral species dominate urban space - progs gave up dignity and honor to be part of the machine so their revenge is that everyone has to cower https://centerforpolitics.org/downloads/Wolf.MauMauingFlakCatchers.pdf …
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