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The reason those cops and judges got to do those things is because of state authority. We all just kinda "agree" that the state is the only entity that gets to
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
The reason those cops and judges got to do those things is because of state authority. We all just kinda "agree" that the state is the only entity that gets to use violence to enforce its rules. When normal people do that shit we call it vigilante justice at best or a street gang at worst. (And then we send the state after those people).
Would your dental situation not be better in a society where the locals did not consider <whatever your transgression was> worthy of using state resources to punish?
Would you not have been better off in a society where the cops didn't have the resources at their disposal to respond to such petty manners?
Would you not have been better off had they just left you the f alone?
If you weren't actively harming anyone agents of the state never should have been involved in your business let alone arrested you.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoNo, do you have first hand experience with deep rural areas? If those men hadn't been agents of the state they would have found another way to do those or similar things, because that is what they wanted to do and they sought out the power that would allow them to do it. I do support abolishing the police and all forms of carceral justice, for what it's worth. Possibly the state too, sure, eventually. But I do not accept, right now that diminishing all forms of the state in favor of elevating personal and corporate power is a reasonable path.