At its most basic level, society is just a mutual non-aggression pact with the enforcement mechanism of the state monopoly on violence. The condition of that monopoly is that state violence must be used in an unbiased and dispassionate way. Any violations of this condition are only tolerated to the extent that open war is mutually assured destruction, a decidedly worse outcome.
The politicians inciting violence and the oligarchs supporting them should realize that if state violence leads to open war, the pact is broken and there are no more rules.
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