Violence, or rather the capacity to inflict death and destruction, lies at the basis of all sociopolitical arrangements, whether they be democracy, monarchy, or oligarchy. In our modern developed world of central monopoly on violence, men can afford the luxury of imagining that the world operates on goodwill and consensus alone. Much of the force and compulsion are hidden behind legal and financial procedures, but without the ever-present state violence, no law has legitimacy and no amount of shiny baubles can compel anyone.

It is quite puzzling that an exile believes that the world operates on consensus alone. Why didn't your faction arrive at some consensus with your enemies over tea and biscuit, rather than being thrown out? Isn't it due to the fact that your ideology is irreconcilable with that of your enemies? The central tenets of all sociocultural ideology are non-negotiable, and those who live within a sociocultural matrix must acquiesce to these tenets, or be removed from sociocultural consciousness, whether through ostracism, imprisonment, or death. Men have consensus over trivial matters, such as gardening, not over core belief systems.