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3/ Where this mechanism for promoting camaraderie & psychological stability is to be enjoyed & extended, its violence is found morally acceptable or ‘sacred’ only by concealing the humanity of our victims and the truth about the violence inflicted on them.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 28 May 2020

‘Sacred violence provides the state with its legitimacy and fuels the optimism and idolatry of the patriot. It sanctions the judiciary, justifies class distinctions, bestows privilege on the ‘best people’ and dignifies the executioner.’ - Robert Hamerton-Kelly 4/

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Quoted by@urbnscl @SuellaBraverman You know how it goes: the ego will and can rationalize anything. Indeed, all the better when policy violence is clothed in the raiment of patriotic interest and religion. So, we arrive at narcissism exponentiated as the vision of a Pure Land flying a solitary, triumphalist flag.Quoted by@thebafflermag