I'm not talking about the morality AT ALL. I'm talking about the effectiveness. When you're out of power, violence will be used as an excuse to crush you. And when you are in power, there are far more deft ways of handling things (e.g. by suppressing people to the extent that they start violence, and then you can paint them as the aggressor).
Consider the fact that you and I are not killed as it is by the ruling classes. Is it because they are not persuaded that it is 'moral'? No, it's because they can keep people down far more easily in other ways, and with less backlash.
Name checks out.
At some point violence will become the morally correct course of action. The trajectory compels it. It's just a question of where the threshold is.
Violence is never the answer.
It's a question, and the answer is YES.
I'm not talking about the morality AT ALL. I'm talking about the effectiveness. When you're out of power, violence will be used as an excuse to crush you. And when you are in power, there are far more deft ways of handling things (e.g. by suppressing people to the extent that they start violence, and then you can paint them as the aggressor).
Consider the fact that you and I are not killed as it is by the ruling classes. Is it because they are not persuaded that it is 'moral'? No, it's because they can keep people down far more easily in other ways, and with less backlash.
I am an American. The very founding of my country demonstrates that your argument is irrelevant.
The very founding of your "country" (you mean state) demonstrates that local elites can resist centralized authority in a decentralized empire.
Surely, you're not as much of a dumbass to think that conditions are even remotely similar today.