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watwutyesterday at 9:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Slavery was violence. It can't exist without considerable violence and involved violence.

So, we can say that it was violence problem that got solved by violence. Not just political problem.


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krappyesterday at 12:03 PM

If you want to go there, all governments and their laws (and thus politics) are predicated on their monopoly on violence, and civil society and the rule of law cannot exist without violence. Therefore all politics is violence and all political problems are also violence problems.

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