Difference between revisions of "State monopoly on violence"
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{{DES | des = This is a bad misdirection from [[Max Weber]]. The state has a monopoly on JUDGING what violence is LEGAL. This allows the state to permit and regulate violence by lesser governments and private parties, as well as making some of its own violence legal. We deliberately delegate much violence to the public state, because private parties are too partial when unregulated. | show=}} | {{DES | des = This is a bad misdirection from [[Max Weber]]. The state has a monopoly on JUDGING what violence is LEGAL. This allows the state to permit and regulate violence by lesser governments and private parties, as well as making some of its own violence legal. We deliberately delegate much violence to the public state, because private parties are too partial when unregulated. | show=}} | ||
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Government is not a monopoly of legitimate violence (force) in the US: there are federal, state, county, and local governments, all of which can use force. They all have their own laws and police, and many have their own courts. Individuals are also allowed many sorts of legitimate violence in defense of person and property, as any gunloon can tell you. Indeed, the US was set up that way precisely to avoid problems of monopoly. | Government is not a monopoly of legitimate violence (force) in the US: there are federal, state, county, and local governments, all of which can use force. They all have their own laws and police, and many have their own courts. Individuals are also allowed many sorts of legitimate violence in defense of person and property, as any gunloon can tell you. Indeed, the US was set up that way precisely to avoid problems of monopoly. | ||
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| + | Private property is a state-created legitimation of violence for the purpose of constructing and enforcing private rights. It creates a monopoly on violence over the delimited property. But unlike publicly accountable government, private property is often unaccountable. | ||
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| + | Those who would abolish government, creating a free-for-all for violence, seem to miss the fact that we want public accountability for violence. | ||
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