an overriding concern of any organization in the violence market is maintaining its legitimacy with its client populace. the main basis of this is that deployment of violence follows rules and the rules are discoverable. this makes people assign you legitimacy instinctively
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this is the opposite of optimal behavior for interacting with an enemy populace, where predictability leads to defeat and violence should be surprising and terrifying. one may make inferences from this about whether a violence vendor regards one as a client or an enemy
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one might hypothesize that a violence provider which is forced to interact with both clients and enemies with no easy way of telling them apart may tend to resolve the intolerable situation by picking some easy distinguishing characteristic and antagonizing everyone who has it
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But this is all great for desired violence - not all violence needs to be surprising and terrifying, some needs to be exciting and visceral, here I’m thinking of MMA and boxing etc. These orgs have strict rules on engagement and health. Which is what you want! #notallvoilence
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