Re:The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
by Ar-Curunir on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:46PM
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No, they only made violence hidden. Is incarceration nonviolent? What would happen if a prisoner decided to leave prison?
This seems a little sophistic. Yes, incarceration is not actually violent. It may be "violent" in some metaphorical sense, and some of the other inmates may be violent, but incarceration itself is not violent.
I've had clients get incarcerated, and I've had clients facing potential capital sentences, and there is a world of difference.
The state has a monopoly on violence, as famously stated, but is not necessarily made of violence, nor should its governance and policy-creation mechanisms necessarily include violence. In fact, the main characteristic of modern democratic institutions is that they removed violence from most of the process.