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> Force properly employed is used only in retaliation, but even when retaliatory, force merely eliminates a negative, it cannot create value.↵ ↵ That isn’t true.↵ ↵ People want protection and justice. Retaliatory force does not merely eliminate a negative. Restoring and producing justice is a value.↵ ↵ Retaliating against one burglar can scare off ten others. The value that’s created here far exceeds the negative which the burglar created.
Force properly employed is used only in retaliation, but even when retaliatory, force merely eliminates a negative, it cannot create value.
That isn’t true.
People want protection and justice. Retaliatory force does not merely eliminate a negative. Restoring and producing justice is a value.
Retaliating against one burglar can scare off ten others. The value that’s created here far exceeds the negative which the burglar created.