&gt; What about people who think it&#x27;s simply unjust when innocent people are killed in the name of some religious&#x2F;political end?<p>I don&#x27;t think that you&#x27;ll find many exceptions to that.<p>&gt; E.g. I know that there is almost no chance that I&#x27;ll be the victim of gang violence. But that doesn&#x27;t mean I have to just accept the existence of gang violence in my community.<p>So, as a member of that community you then have the option to go out and do something about it. You can also move out, you can pay someone else to do something about it (which you already do through your taxes, hopefully they do enough). You can also keep your eyes open if you see anything suspicious and report it. You can rally support for better pay for the police so the chances of corrupt police interacting with gangs goes down.<p>And finally, it may actually mean that yes, you will have to accept the existence of gang violence in your community if that community is incapable of changing from within.<p>Gang violence takes a while to establish itself, and it - even with the best of the best working to get rid of it - can&#x27;t be gotten rid overnight. Problems of this kind usually take roughly as long to fix as it takes to solve them.