&gt;But the idea of taking a bat to someone&#x27;s head for betraying my trust in them is... Well, that&#x27;s really the question to explore, right? How could someone actually do that, let alone approve of someone else doing that?<p>But, implicitly, you already <i>do</i> approve of that. Your government commits various forms of violence in your name, as all governments do - most notably in the form of military and police actions, some of which you may not agree with.