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roachboy, within a system of government, haven't all forms of violence been accounted for? Wouldn't it exist as a currency within that context? Violence has a value inasmuch it has consequences and privileged use depending on the circumstances. And also consider that there are forms of violence that have no currency within social systems--there is a lot within the animal kingdom that would be on the outside.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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