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    1 year ago

    You are attacking a strawman.

    Some societies are violent more so than others.

    A social system is not simplistically the cause of all violence, and neither is any violence due to causes simplistically detached from the social system in which it occurs.

    Violence is latent in capitalism.

    It produces massive disparities in wealth and privilege that could not for very long be sustained except by the constant threat of force against those who are deprived, marginalized, and otherwise disadvantaged.