Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color.
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.
The only thing we should prohibit is violence.
If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.
Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.
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