How do we feel about this comics’ insinuation that the only safety any of us deserve is that which we can secure through our own personal ability to preserve through violence? By that logic, the pig should have shot the wolf the instant he saw him, and there would be no end to the violence until everyone was equally afraid of everyone else’s capacity for violence, or until they re-invented feudalism from first principles, and neither sounds like a great state of affairs to me.
The Pig mistakenly believed that the systematic violence and oppression of the state via the police to protect his capital would be an effective deterrent against the violence of the Wolf. The Wolf called his bluff by showing just how tenuous that trust in the police is
How do we feel about this comics’ insinuation that the only safety any of us deserve is that which we can secure through our own personal ability to preserve through violence? By that logic, the pig should have shot the wolf the instant he saw him, and there would be no end to the violence until everyone was equally afraid of everyone else’s capacity for violence, or until they re-invented feudalism from first principles, and neither sounds like a great state of affairs to me.
The Pig mistakenly believed that the systematic violence and oppression of the state via the police to protect his capital would be an effective deterrent against the violence of the Wolf. The Wolf called his bluff by showing just how tenuous that trust in the police is