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The Two Rights Must Come Into Violent Conflict

The two rights must come into violent conflict as long as the established society depends for its functioning on exploitation and guilt you know sure that's exactly all that it's about. Neither conscious conscience nor commitment to an ideal can legalize this aversion of an established order which defines order so legal is bad or even legalized disturbance of the peace but violence alone belongs to the lawful right to abrogate peace  the killing and beating in the established vocabulary. Bad words are a priori reserved for the enemy regardless of their motivation and goal no matter how good they may be. The opposition cannot change the state of affairs by the very means which protect and sustain theState of Affairs, writes Peter Bergen.

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