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brendyn | 4 months ago

Laws are enforced by violence. If you disobey, and refuse to pay fines eventually someone will break your door down and drag you out in handcuffs

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skrebbel|4 months ago

This implies you can call any law you don't like "violent". That's ridiculous.

cess11|4 months ago

No, it's not. One important feature of the modern state is that it makes a claim to a monopoly on violence and institutionally back up its enforcement of its laws with this threat of violence.