On Violence

[John 6IX Breezy]

(1) It assumes that violence and power, consent and coercion are mutually exclusive. Sadly, our history demonstrates that it's possible to have both. In-group power and consent producing out-group coercion and violence is a pretty common theme in our tribalistic little species.

It's not so much that they are mutually exclusive, but rather that they are inversely proportional. And so, from a wholistic standpoint, a system with societies that favor in-group consent, but with out-group coercion, could be said to function at something like 50% efficiency. But if they improve their outgroup relations with more trade, etc., the numbers might improve to 70% let's say.

As for my claim that they cannot coexist, I pictured something more restrictive like the oddity of a group having internal violence towards the same thing that it doesn't. You cannot be both discriminatory towards Black people and claim to offer equal opportunities to them. But I agree, across groups and variables both things can exist.