Fundamentals
Jim Hlavac
Fundamentals
Sections
Individual Violence

Every individual is capable of violence, some more so than others

Violence is often, but not always, an expression of ignorance or frustration

One's violence in defense of one's survival is always justified

Violence always interferes with another's rights and is an abandonment of the perpetrator's
obligations

It is an obligation to attempt to stop violence

Violence can be against property, which is really against an individual who owns that
property for survival

There has always been, in all societies at all times, a static percentage of uncontrollably
violent people

Sometimes the uncontrollably violent person assumes political power

Individual violence is almost always either pure emotion and faith, or pure theft and fraud,
or some combination, with rare exception

Individual violence at the dawn of human history led to royal status and thus to the state

The more heterogeneous the ethnic stock of a state the higher the percentage of individual
violence within

Individual violence sometimes coalesces into a mob