They're almost all legitimate uses of force by definition, unless the government breaks the law. This is orthogonal to moral or utilitarian concerns, however.

They're almost all legitimate uses of force by definition, unless the government breaks the law. This is orthogonal to moral or utilitarian concerns, however. But whenever I see people upset government uses force, I think: of course it does. It's like birds using wings or Emacs users using the control key.