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It's not complex at all. It's just violence. People are doing things you don't want them to do, so you do something to make them stop. Pretty standard. If they can muster defiance, it's only because you weren't violent enough. If someone is defiant enough to play probability games with you, just punish them 100% of the time instead, even if they did nothing. He was probably doing it some other time where you didn't c…
But don't you see that if you solve your problems this way, the obnoxious neighbour can also solve their problem this way? "Stop making a noise or I'll beat you up" vs "Quit complaining about the noise or I'll beat you up" Your position just means every disagreement comes down to a physical fight. Is that how you want to live? Willingness to use violence to get what you want is not inherently linked to being in the r…
> Is that how you want to live?
The threat of violence is always present. It's just that in "civilized" societies it's often indirect and abstracted. People don't usually get violent, they pay lawyers to complain to the courts which have the power to order police to commit measured amounts of violence on their behalf if necessary.
When negotiation fails and police is unlikely to help, people quickly revert to taking matters into their own hands.