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The -individual- is just an ogre, yes. The State support and condoning of such ogreish behavior (pun intended) is my primary issue here. IMO the State supports and condones such things by not only not punishing official State actors who commit such egregious violence, but also by drastically enhancing the penalties for a non-State actor committing similar or lesser acts upon a State actor, thereby enacting an egregious double-standard backed up by threat of legally-sanctioned violence.
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