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>For some reason there is this idea that nations can act like tribes - random and violent - which is a funny notion to me because that kind of behaviour is not acceptable even at the lowest level of societies.
It is entirely acceptable and the way the world actually works. Your country is a lot smaller than it was a century ago -- why is that? Because violence was applied to your ancestors until they begged for the killing to stop. My country stretches from one side of a continent to the other because violence was applied to its earlier inhabitants. Right now we face the small but increasing likelihood of violent coercion from our southern neighbor.
It's a rare world leader who doesn't have the blood of at least a few tens of thousands of people, and more likely millions, on his hands. Hopefully we're at the end of a particularly open example of ethnic cleansing in the Middle East, which we all tacitly supported, and for which those responsible, as members in good standing of the Blood Soaked Hands club, will never face any form of earthly justice. Ditto in Ukraine, where millions have been killed and nobody responsible will ever face any form of earthly justice.
And, of course, all states are violent, because violence is what a state is. If you take any bit of state authority, no matter how innocuous or even pointless, and follow it back to its ultimate logical conclusion, you find a man with a gun. If you disobey the state in any way they notice, eventually they'll send a man with a gun to either kill you or make you comply. States could not exist without that.
>Don't call me a moron please.
Fine, I'm sorry for that.