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Do you understand how hypotheticals work?
Hypothetically, I'm your neighbor. I feel like killing you. I have a gun. I have no sense of morality. What stops me?
My point is that I've lived next to people preparing for war, and it was never an issue. I don't see why people can't coexist.
My evasion, guile, and misdirection.
What's your response to the hypothetical? Shoot first?
K now you run away, cool, I can't find you but I get to keep all your stuff and your house. You die from exposure. Great plan.
My answer is that the sanctioned violence of the state provides a check on the violence of individuals. Now we all live in a relatively peaceful society.
That doesn't answer the hypothetical. Are you saying you'd call the cops? What do you do when the killer is coming for you with their gun?
Call the cops, yes. Defend myself if necessary inasmuch as the law allows, because I agreed to be bound by the law. If I live in a rural area and the cops are far away, using violence to defend myself may be the only option.
But whether it's by me or the state, my violent neighbor will be stopped by a greater amount of violence.