The state shouldn't have the right to kill.

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I get it but that’s literally the only purpose of the state. To hold the monopoly on violence.

Indeed, so we must check that power to the best of our ability else we are ruled by the violence rather than ruling the violence.

Yes taxation is theft at the arm of violence et al

We will always be ruled by violence in one way shape or form. Violence is the supreme authority.

Yes, the dark occult saying "Might is right" vs is the True saying "Right is Might"

I get it, but I would rather say that violence is authority at last resort. Supreme authority does not need violence to rule.

Violence is the supreme authority

Is it violence or power?

To me, figures like Jesus, Siddhartha Gautama or Gandhi are archetypes of supreme authority personified. Violence is a huge but rough tool to enforce authority, and in some cases it fails.

Agree, but it can have the obligation

Its obligation comes at the expense of the people. One's capacity for violence is never removed even under statehood, its differed. So thinking that an individual's life is worth less than that of society and that society is obliged to infringe on the individual if the individual has already wronged is not morally justified. Exclusion is still an option that I would prefer to full violence.

IMHO is just bullshit signaling virtue Who pays for the exclusion? You think it’s moral to pay 150$/day for a criminal when children around the world work months to have them ? Is that a moral society ?