I also don’t want to build gallows, it doesn’t matter who hangs really. But if someone else is building gallows to hang me from, I won’t be watching idly.
I’ll at least have to try to resist, if I wouldn’t I’d might as well hang myself now, or at least when the struggle gets to much to bear.
Because they’re the ones with the monopoly on violence. Might makes right for those brutes.
Nobody has a monopoly on violence.
Might does not make right. But might does make policy.
The good people need wisdom and might, both. Then we will set policy and it won’t suck.
The world has to work for all its denizens and not just for the “top” (only in some sense, not in every sense) 0.01%.
I don’t want to build a gallows from which I myself will be hanged. I am not a masochist. I don’t hate myself.
The term describes a material condition. State police forces exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
My point is that what you are saying is simply a convention that for most of us made sense for a long time.
I contend there do exist conditions under which that convention goes away. And at bottom we are all capable of violence.
I also don’t want to build gallows, it doesn’t matter who hangs really. But if someone else is building gallows to hang me from, I won’t be watching idly.
I’ll at least have to try to resist, if I wouldn’t I’d might as well hang myself now, or at least when the struggle gets to much to bear.