I was looking up the phrase “right justifies violence” and was amused to see it paired with “violence creates justice.” If we naively believe that violence is evil and justice is good, cognitive dissonance occurs when the two are connected.

The Right to Resist - Constitutional Authority, Beginning Violence and Justice Constitutional power is, simply put, “the power to create power where there is no power” (and thus, as the German word verfassungsgebende Gewalt implies, it is not “power” at all), violence that creates something out of nothing. There is “Creating Justice through Violence” and “Justification of violence by justice” at the same time. https://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/download.php/AN00224504-20031228-0023.pdf?file_id=109853

relevance - Mackie’s Theory of Error - Creating an environment in which violent retaliation for an act X can make the people living there perceive that X is immoral.


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