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>I do understand it, but I reject it.
I will leave it at this as I see no further point in trying to persuade you about freedom. Living a harsh truth is 100 times better than living a comfortable lie.
>And this is correct. The holder of "greatest violence" allows the worlds of all holders of "inferior violence," but only so long as it is convenient to him.
That does not mean that the peacemaker actually wants to use that violence or inherently desires to use it as you imply. This does not further your point that by nature the human inherently loves war, that he secretly desires war, or that he deep down approves of war. He may hold the threat of violence explicitly as a means to prevent others from resorting to it. The peacemaker uses the threat of violence and the warmonger uses it in practice but neither is fundamentally more human than the other. The peacemaker does not have to be this sissy, sophisticated and meager person you make him out to be.
>Interesting word choice ("our" feels very "western liberal"), since I think you'd struggle to find any period in human history wherein no one was fighting anywhere on earth. Someone is always fighting somewhere.
Correct, and you would struggle to find a period in human history where there werent any people living in peace anywhere on earth. A more eastern way of phrasing it would be that the universe alternates between order and disorder (peace and war), alternating periods of tranquility and prospering dynasties followed by its rot and collapse; this leads to a period of chaos and war where the victor only seizes hegemony for the sake of erecting a new dynasty and establishing a new period of peace. War is no more common than peace, thus no more fundamental than peace.
>Yes, and those bands of cavemen killed other bands of cavemen.
>The waltz is ENDLESS.
And sometimes, they did not and made peace with the other bands instead. Youre insinuating a solo performance of war, not a waltz between war and peace.

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