Submitted by lumpentroll (not verified) on Mon, 11/16/2020 - 14:59
Sure you can! Force people to not murder, I mean.
By offering an equally credible threat of murder in exact proportion! Think mutually assured destruction in nuclear war but like, on a personal level. That's how power functions in its most honest and ancient form: the watershed of most politics and most of human history in general.
If you try to murder me, I might get you first so you'd best not try.
Sure you can! Force people to not murder, I mean.
By offering an equally credible threat of murder in exact proportion! Think mutually assured destruction in nuclear war but like, on a personal level. That's how power functions in its most honest and ancient form: the watershed of most politics and most of human history in general.
If you try to murder me, I might get you first so you'd best not try.