“If the state is just the accumulated results of past conflicts, and if preservation of the state becomes the end that grounds necessity, then the fact of violence becomes a kind of law, and the law, grounded in the need to preserve what fate has established, blurs into the fact of organized violence” LawViolenceState Violence Book:Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics Source: Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics