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Agreed. Why exactly would we tolerate damaging and costly violence?

Has it occurred to you that the removal of physical violence does not come for free? It is simply replaced with other types of violence (i.e. psychological / emotional / cyberbullying violence).

While I do not condone of physical violence, I would much rather a guy having beef with me to angrily yell at me in person, rather than make up stuff and invite a twitter mob to get me fired.

Because human nature is something to be tolerated.

But yeah, better have kids playing judo than bar fighting.

Bullying? murder, domestic violence, child abuse, rape, racism? All these things can be attributed one way or another to human nature because they exist in all human cultures. Should we tolerate them?

Except swap their wife for the random guy in a bar and we call it domestic violence and punish it with jail time.

DV is generally a pattern of varied abusive behaviour ranging from physical, physiological, controlling, coercion etc.. not a one off bar fight.

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