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The keynote speaker, Jacob Applebaum, really knows how to woo the crowd. He has some great points like: "Even though the government has a monopoly on violence,
by imaginator 16y ago
The keynote speaker, Jacob Applebaum, really knows how to woo the crowd. He has some great points like:
"Even though the government has a monopoly on violence, violence cannot solve math problems."
heh
- fs111 16y agoJake Applebaum is doing the keynote? I thought that Rob G. did that
- jessor 16y agoYea it was Rop Gonggrijp.
- imaginator 16y agoI stand corrected.
- pwpwp 16y agoThe government actually doesn't have a monopoly on violence/force: self-defense and citizen's arrest are counterexamples.
- ugh 16y agoBoth self defense and citizen’s arrest have very strict limits and are consequently rarely used. The government has a practical monopoly on violence. It’s certainly closer to the truth to say that the government has a monopoly on violence than to say that the government doesn’t have one.